Page 1551 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 14 May 2019
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This amendment clarifies that an injured person that has made a successful workers compensation application does not have to withdraw the application within 13 weeks and is not required to give an insurer notice under subsection 74(4), which is coming up. My next amendment is consequential and covers this point.
MR COE (Yerrabi—Leader of the Opposition) (11.36): The opposition supports the clarification being made in Mr Barr’s amendment No 3.
Amendment agreed to.
MR BARR (Kurrajong—Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Social Inclusion and Equality, Minister for Tourism and Special Events and Minister for Trade, Industry and Investment) (11.36): I move amendment No 4 circulated in my name, which is consequential to the previous amendment [see schedule 2 at page 1643].
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 73, as amended, agreed to.
Clauses 74 and 75, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Clause 76.
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (11.37): I seek leave to move amendments to this bill which have not been considered by or reported on by the scrutiny committee.
Leave granted.
MS LE COUTEUR: I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name [see schedule 3 at page 1658]. This amendment deals with superannuation. We have had long and detailed discussions about whether superannuation is income. I will not, in the interests of brevity, go through all the discussions that we have had. Basically my proposal will, for some people, add in superannuation which would normally have been paid by a person’s employer if they were still working. The Liberal Party, I understand, will be moving an amendment which would add superannuation as parts of income for all workers. Clearly I can see the logic behind that. My amendment is not that amendment. My amendment is similar but not the same. We think that the Liberals’ amendment would change the scheme too substantially.
We are looking, basically, at the situation of low income people. If you are already on a low income and are in a car accident and you stop going to work for a period of time, it seems to us unfair that, when you finally retire in however many years—even if you manage to get back to work and you were not on long-term income replacement, you were not over 10 per cent and you were only out of work for a few years—you would find that you were still suffering the effects of that because your superannuation was not paid in that period.
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