A federal Labor government would fast-track the superannuation guarantee rise to 12 per cent, under a proposal to be put to its national conference.
Labor has released its draft national platform for the conference to be held in Melbourne in July.
The party claims credit for boosting the national savings pool to $1.9 trillion through compulsory super, which has been frozen by the coalition government.
"(Changes) will include, when prudent, ending the coalition's freeze of the superannuation guarantee at 9.5 per cent, and fast-tracking the superannuation guarantee increase to 12 per cent, which will provide millions of Australians with higher retirement incomes," the draft policy says.
It also endorses the policy of stripping back superannuation tax concessions for the highest earners, given that 35 per cent of the value of these concessions accrue to the top 10 per cent of income earners.
While the draft platform makes 34 fewer references to unions than the previous, it adds a number of new commitments.
One of these is an objective test when determining if a worker is a casual.
And it makes an explicit reference to retaining penalty rates "for excessive or unsociable hours, and for weekends and public holidays".
In terms of asylum-seeker policy, which is set to be fiercely debated between the Left and Right factions in July, the party stands by a "strong border security regime" including mandatory detention and offshore processing.
But the party has committed to restoring the 90-day rule in the Migration Act, axed by the coalition.
The rule requires refugee status determinations to be concluded within 90 days from the time of application.
On foreign aid, Labor waters down commitments made in 2011, which set an aim of increasing overseas development assistance to 0.5 per cent of gross national income by 2015, and raising it to 0.7 per cent over time.
The new draft talks about Australia doing its "fair share", with aid "over time" reaching at least 0.5 per cent of gross national income.
The party is also set to change tack on the national broadband network, describing the use of fibre cable as "optimal" but not repeating the commitment to 93 per cent of premises having access to the high-speed fibre network or the preference for fibre-to-the-home.
"Because of the coalition's limited vision, it will now need to be built in two stages rather than one," the draft platform says of the NBN begun under Labor.
The party is seeking comment on the draft until the end of May.
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