WORKERS'
COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT BILL 2021 —PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS
479. Hon NICK GOIRAN to the Minister for Industrial
Relations:
I
refer to the minister's announcement today that public submissions can
be made on the draft workers' compensation bill. Will the
submissions be made public?
Hon STEPHEN DAWSON
replied:
I thank the honourable member for
the question. He is indeed correct; I did issue a press release today relating
to a draft bill to modernise workers'
compensation laws. This is, of course, me acting and delivering on the 2021
election commitment that was made to
progress a bill that will modernise workers' compensation laws in Western
Australia. Public submissions are now open
for a three-month period, which will close on 10 November this year. No
decision has been made at this stage about whether the submissions that
will be received as part of the process will be released. I take it by the
honourable member asking the question that he has an interest in those
submissions being publicly released, so I am happy to take that issue on notice
and consider it.