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NSW Premier Chris Minns received a rock star welcome at Business NSW’s pre-budget breakfast.

‘I love Chris Minns’: Premier gets rock-star treatment in usually hostile territory

Minns has warned the state’s workers’ compensation scheme will not exist in five to 10 years without reform. Previously, he said it would be gone in two.

  • Max Maddison and Ellie Busby

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Treasurer Daniel Mookhey claimed the Coalition’s amendments to the government’s workers compensation legislation would cost $1.9 billion.

Workers compensation legislation to face second inquiry after government loses first battle

The contentious workers compensation bill will be considered by a second inquiry.

  • Max Maddison
Treasurer Daniel Mookhey claimed the Coalition’s amendments to the government’s workers compensation legislation would cost $1.9 billion.

Premier’s office forced to quell backbench rebellion on workers’ compensation

The state government faces an uphill battle to pass controversial workers’ compensation legislation. Disquiet in the Labor ranks resulted in MPs being “monstered”.

  • Max Maddison
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey, who led the opposition charge against icare, now has the troubled scheme under his watch.

Daniel Mookhey has played a starring role in the icare story. Is he a hero or a villain?

The NSW workers’ compensation system is seriously unwell. NSW Labor is proposing an amputation.

  • Michael McGowan
Healthcare workers are already exhausted after two years on the front lines of the pandemic.

The unholy alliance against new laws that ‘disproportionately’ impact women

Liberal MPs have joined unions in warning that changes to workers’ compensation laws would have a disproportionate impact on women.

  • Alexandra Smith
Former iCare CEO Richard Harding raised concerns about his own regulator, SIRA, and its handling of complaints.

iCare boss blew whistle on insurance regulator for causing ‘additional trauma and distress’ to injured workers

Confidential documents obtained by The Sydney Morning Herald reveal Richard Harding, the former chief executive of iCare, raised concerns a senior executive at SIRA had divulged ‘private and confidential details’ about long-term injured workers.

  • Michael McGowan
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Unions NSW Secretary Mark Morey and Premier Chris Minns.

Inquiry hears how icare changes would affect a majority of impaired workers

Proposed reforms of the state’s workplace compensation scheme would disproportionately affect women, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

  • Max Maddison
Sharni Sinclair is one of several injured workers whose case was subject to a special inquiry into the conduct of insurance regulator SIRA.

Secretive inquiry found NSW insurance regulator contributed to trauma of injured workers

Injured worker Sharni Sinclair says it is “not good enough” and feels she is being ignored.

  • Michael McGowan
Just days before the last election NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey signed a pledge promising to overturn workers compensation rules he now wants to toughen.

NSW Labor wants to toughen laws it previously said were causing people to self-harm

Treasurer Daniel Mookhey once promised to repeal contentious workers’ compensation laws. Now the Minns government wants to make them even tougher.

  • Michael McGowan
NSW Premier Chris Minns is preparing for a fight over psychosocial compensation claims.

NSW workers’ comp scheme only sustainable for ‘another two years’

Premier Chris Minns has refused to rule out lifting the threshold required for workplace mental health payouts to levels some experts say would be impossible to reach.

  • Max Maddison

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