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It is extremely unlikely you will ever qualify to withdraw your super early due to financial hardship. I have never seen anyone do it - and I am not even sure about the tax on it but you would probably get a 15% rebate. Its not worth considering.

You are not a low wage earner. There are plenty of people out there with full time jobs earning just $37,000 pa before tax. You earn almost double this. How is the government taking 50%? Super is taxed at a max of 15%.

I had a client in my law practice that invested $1mil of his super in the sharemarket trusting a stranger he met (who was supposedly a share trader) to trade it for him. A few years ago the sharemarket dropped and it went down to $700,000. He then retook control of his shares selling them all...

Shares go up and down, you have to expect that. They are a long term investment.