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Workers rally to fight WorkCover changes.

Anna Kelsey-Sugg

A newly established Adelaide group offers to provide support, counselling, guidance and a united voice, as well as lobbying against recent WorkCover reforms.

A new Adelaide based group is speaking out against the recent changes made to the South Australian WorkCover system. Encompass spokesperson Rosemary McKenzie-Ferguson, herself an injured worker, has called for the reforms to be “scrapped immediately”, saying they lead to workers being treated like numbers, isolating them and stripping them of their dignity. “Injured workers have no protection under the changed legislatio...

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Published 19 November, 2008 | Updated 14 January, 2009