Rhian,
Where did I say it should be at anyone's disposal ? Also, it is not baseless to draw attention to the fact that public service bureaucrats get a sweet deal from salaries to Super. All propped up by workers' taxes. Deny that one rather than to try divert attention from the real argument which is not a personal attack. It's a pointing out of fact which the likes of you don't like to have publicised.

Individual
Commonwealth public servants receive a higher proportion of their earnings as super than most employees. Whether this is a "sweet deal" depends on whether this is money they otherwise wouldn't get, or just results in lower salaries. This article argues they would be better off without the higher super:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/less-superannuation-but-more-pay-please-20130629-2p3v6.html

The only governments I have worked for were state governments that paid super at the standard 9% that all employees are entitled to by law.

The issue of super came up in the context of Rhosty's post seeking to use super to invest in high-tech high-risk unproven technologies and infrastructure. So you are supporting the use of other people's savings to subsidise business and invest in high-risk enterprises. That is what I meant by assuming other people's savings are at your disposal. This is something I don't support. You made the issue personal by implying that I have benefitted from from overly generous super benefits

This is something I don't support.
implying that I have benefitted from from overly generous super benefits
Rhian,
I am dead against it myself.
Ok. re the second sentence but you did make it sound like so. Employer contributions in the private sector come from the profits made from the efforts of the emploer & the employees. In the public service there is not enough genuine effort to morally justify dishing out our dollars for hardly anything in return. Remember what we do receive via emergency services & health etc is aready paid for by us. Red tape is not a moral revenue base, it is theft on a grand scale protected by laws made up by immoral minority groups in a supposedly democratic society.

individual
I'm not a great fan of big government myself - hence my support for the author's position. But there are lots of things governments do that are necessary. Are you suggesting public servants shouldn't be paid to do these?