The emphasis of the report, addressed to the Labour Ministers' Council, is little different from that in the 1993 Industry Commission's draft report, Workers compensation in Australia which recommended that access to common law be abolished, with compensation for non-pecuniary loss set out in a Table of Injuries. The HWCA report recommends that each State and Territory jurisdiction adopt consistent legislation directed to abolishing common law rights for injured workers and the curtailment of the legal profession from representing injured workers. There was wide scope for scrutinising and contesting the Report's figures and its costing methods. Through the Law Society of NSW, NSW workers compensation practitioners be asked to contribute to the fund. The Law Council of Australia be advised of the above resolutions.
Action be to taken to implement the above resolutions.
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