COMPARISON OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION ARRANGEMENTS

COVERAGE

WESTERN

AUSTRALIA

QUEENSLAND

TASMANIA

NORTHERN

TERRITORY

A.C.T.

NEW ZEALAND

The following

Included

Included

Included

`Mental injury' does

Claims only allowed

exclusions apply,

not include a

for

except when the

mental injury

  Stress caused by

actions of the

(including stress)

physical injury

employer are

completely or

  Stress caused by

`unreasonable and

mostly caused by

sexual abuse

harsh':

reasonable action

a) the worker's

taken by, or on

dismissal,

behalf of, an

retrenchment,

employer in relation

demotion,

to the transfer,

discipline,

demotion,

transfer or

promotion,

redeployment;

performance

b) the worker's

appraisal,

not being

discipline,

promoted ,

retrenchment or

reclassified,

dismissal of a

transferred or

worker or the

granted leave of 

provision of an

absence or any

employment benefit

other benefit in

to a worker. S 4(2)

relation to the the

employment; and

c) the worker's

expectation of a

matter or a

decision by the

employer in

relation to the

matters outlined

above

10%

5%

5% binaural hearing

5% whole person

A worker is not

No threshold is

(Above baseline

A further

impairment

impairment

entitled to

specified. Covered

hearing loss

application may

(percentage of loss

compensation if the

under the

previously

be considered only

of whole body)

total hearing loss is

`gradual process'

assessed)

if lodged more

less than 6% S 64(1)

provisions

than 3 years after

the previous

application, and

claimant has

sustained a

further hearing

diminution of

more than 1%

Heads of Workers' Compensation Authorities  15