Return to Work Scheme

The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO (15:14): Are we able to table the advice that was provided by Finity?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Attorney-General, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (15:14): The internal advice I don't think, I am not aware, has been tabled. Again, I want to repeat: we find ourselves in this situation as a result of one thing—as a result of one thing—and that is the deliberate policy of the former Liberal government, who wanted an average premium rate of 2.2 per cent. That's what the former government wanted. That was their deliberate policy, to go up to 2.2 per cent.

We don't apologise for looking to do something that makes a sensible compromise between a massive premium rate that would have cost hundreds of millions of dollars to small and medium businesses across this state while still maintaining protection for the most seriously injured workers. That wasn't the policy of the former government, but if that's the policy that this opposition wants to continue, good luck to them.