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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2008-04-30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-First Parliament, Second Session (51-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>51</parliamentNum>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>WorkCover Corporation</name>
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        <heading>WORKCOVER CORPORATION</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3128" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. A. BRESSINGTON</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2008-04-30">
            <name>WORKCOVER CORPORATION</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3128">The Hon. A. BRESSINGTON (15:00): </by> I have a supplementary question. Is the minister aware that in 1997 the unfunded liability was cut by $6.9 million a month as a result of paying redemptions and that there was no need to slash injured workers' entitlements in 1997 in order to achieve that result?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="574" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Police, Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2008-04-30">
            <name>WORKCOVER CORPORATION</name>
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          <by role="member" id="574">The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY (Minister for Police, Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning) (15:01): </by> The answer is that we are now in 2008. WorkCover has a liability of over $800 million and rising. It is in the interests of all injured workers in this state that we have a scheme that is fiscally sustainable.</text>
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