Consultation period: 7 August to 18 September 2025

Give feedback on the best practice principles for superannuation retirement income solutions.

The principles guide super funds. It helps them design and deliver high-quality retirement income solutions to their members.

The consultation paper seeks views on best practices across 3 key areas:

  • understanding the membership base

  • increasing access to retirement products and features

  • communicating with members effectively.

The principles are part of the government’s Improving the retirement phase of superannuation package.

Documents

Responding

You can submit responses to this consultation up until 18 September 2025. Interested parties are invited to comment on this consultation.

Submissions may be lodged electronically. For accessibility reasons, please submit responses in a Word or RTF format. An additional PDF version may also be submitted.

All information (including name and address details) contained in submissions will be made available to the public on the Treasury website unless you indicate that you would like all or part of your submission to remain in confidence. Automatically generated confidentiality statements in emails do not suffice for this purpose. Respondents who would like part of their submission to remain in confidence should provide this information marked as such in a separate attachment.

Legal requirements, such as those imposed by the Freedom of Information Act 1982, may affect the confidentiality of your submission.

View our submission guidelines for further information.

Make a submission

Enquiries

If you have any questions, email retirement@treasury.gov.au.