Government gets their way on workers’ comp
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- Published: Tuesday, 17 February 2026 16:35
In the November issue we announced “Minns Government smashed on Workers Comp” when the government didn’t have the numbers in the Upper House to push through their hostile attack on Whole Person Injury, in particular, to make it almost impossible for anyone to satisfy the test.
We announced there was a new “Workers’ hero” after a former Liberal in the Legislative Council, Taylor Martin, announced he wouldn’t be “the patsy for this government”. Unions were celebrating, but Unions NSW Secretary Mark Morey always warned us about never under-estimating Treasurer Daniel Mookey, and eventually the Workers’ hero lost the mantle, and the changes were made.
But it could have been worse. Here is a list of achievements, significant concessions made in the brawling to protect workers compensation.
Yes, it still remains astonishing that it is always an ALP Government that does the dirty on workers comp, and those unions, which once upon a time were uncritical supporters of the ALP, are uncritical no longer.