Skip to content
Back to News Hub
Political

WEDNESDAY: TWEED ESSENTIAL WORKERS RALLY AGAINST MENTAL HEALTH COMPENSATION CUTS

Unions NSW < 1 mins read

***Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 8:00AM Chris Cunningham Park (Jack Evans Boat Harbour), Tweed Heads***

WHAT: Essential workers from across the Tweed and Northern Rivers region will rally to oppose the NSW government's proposed cuts to workers compensation, which would drastically limit mental health support for injured workers.

WHO: Local nurses, teachers, emergency service workers, and other essential workers.

WHY: The NSW government's proposed changes would:

  • Require traumatised workers to undertake legal proceedings before accessing compensation

  • Implement a 30% Whole Person Impairment threshold – Australia's harshest – excluding 95% of legitimate psychological injury claims

  • Rush through changes by 1 July 2025

PHOTO/INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES:

  • Local workers sharing personal stories about workplace psychological injuries

LOCAL IMPACT:

  • 97% of Northern Rivers workers have experienced psychological hazards at work

  • 63% of Tweed frontline workers report being exposed to trauma and traumatic events

  • 84% of local workers believe the NSW Government’s WPI changes will force injured workers to return to work before it is safe for them to do so

MEDIA CONTACT: Nick Lucchinelli 0422 229 032 Salim Barbar, NSWNM: 0417 286 482

More from this category

  • Finance Investment, Political
  • 13/02/2026
  • 06:35
Super Members Council

Under-18s super carve-out sees SA teenagers miss out on $36 million in super contributions

The Super Members Council is pushing to scrap an outdated law that denies super to most under-18 workers, after new analysis shows it will shortchange teenagers in South Australia $36 million in 2025/26. The research shows 36,000 under-18 workers in South Australia will miss out on an average of $1,000 each in super this year, while about 515,000 workers nationally will be excluded from a combined $405 million. Under current rules, workers under the age of 18 are only legally guaranteed super if they work more than 30 hours a week for one employer. The outdated exclusion was originally made…

  • Contains:
  • Energy, Political
  • 12/02/2026
  • 11:04
RMIT University

Banning energy disconnections shouldn’t destabilise markets, study finds

Approaches by some European countries and Australia to protect energy consumers could help countries worldwide phase out harmful electricity disconnections without destabilising power markets,…

  • Contains:
  • Finance Investment, Political
  • 11/02/2026
  • 12:56
Super Members Council

SMC backs new super law that gives 1.3 million low-income Aussies a big boost for retirement

The Super Members Council welcomes legislation introduced to Parliament today that will boost the super of 1.3 million of the nation’s lowest-paid workers, who are mostly women. The Government’s Building a Stronger and Fairer Super System Bill would unfreeze the Low-Income Super Tax Offset (LISTO) for the first time in 13 years. This historic reform will powerfully lift the retirement incomes of the very lowest paid workers across Australia. For a woman who earns the minimum wage across her whole working life, it could deliver up to $60,000 more in her super by retirement – dramatically lifting her income. The…

  • Contains:

Media Outreach made fast, easy, simple.

Feature your press release on Medianet's News Hub every time you distribute with Medianet. Pay per release or save with a subscription.

Book a demo Explore our plans