Brogden's ideas on savings stay above politics IT'S amazing to realise that it's now just over three weeks since the original leak from the government about a possible tax on withdrawals from superannuation, since when there's been a storm of indignation from much of the industry, but nothing has actually happened. Except a lot of politics. What's now becoming apparent is that Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten, who sometimes makes Niccolo Machiavelli look like a total neophyte, was almost certainly the source of the leak because he was trying to make that new tax NOT happen. I, for one, had naively assumed that the government acted as one voice, and that this was the scare tactic to get us all ready for a marginally less painful impost in the budget in May.