"Backflip" is a lazy journalistic cliché. Looking at every policy decision through the lens of imagined leadership tensions is equally unhelpful to the media-consuming public. Both are news of little consequence.

The news of consequence about last week's superannuation announcement , on the other hand, was: what was done; how was it done; why it needed doing; and what was not done.

Yet headline after headline talked of Treasurer Jim Chalmers doing a "backflip" over superannuation - from the staid Australian Financial Review to the rabid right Sky News , from the regional to the metropolitan.

The alleged "backflip" was the change from the original plan to increase the tax on the earnings of balances over $3 million from 15 per cent to 30 per cent. Under the new plan, the $3 million

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