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Podcast: Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network
Episode: Why Australia needs a national workersâ compensation scheme
Description: Australiaâs workersâ compensation landscape, given the almost dozen separate schemes nationwide, is âa bit of a fractured messâ. Having a national scheme, one workplace risk director argues, will go a long way in addressing pervasive issues. In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with Aon workplace risk director Gary McMullen about the current state of affairs with workersâ compensation schemes across the country, why the disparity is causing problems, the âpostcode privilegeâ that exists for some workers, and how schemes are both declining in performance and simultaneously more expensive. McMullen also...