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Top 5 workcover misconceptions

By on April 8, 2013 in Stuff, Workers compensation

Everyone has opinions on what workcover is. Some are correct, but most are in fact misconceptions, most often sensationalised by our biased media. Everyone may have heard of someone that tried to get away with milking the workcover system.  Most of these (few) people are caught through routine investigation, and their cases get resolved.  The [...]

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Workcover: three common delusions

By on April 7, 2013 in Psych, Stuff

Many  workcover recipients (or people who want workcover money peanuts) struggle under a variety of painful and generally destructive delusions. Let’s dig into some of those a little deeper, rip them apart, and talk about how you can approach your struggles a tad more productively. Delusion #1. Believing that your workcover “benefits” will “fix” everything [...]

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A Game For Injured Workers And Their Supporters

By on April 2, 2013 in Return to work, Stuff, WorkSafe Vic

  A Game For Injured Workers And Their Supporters It’s Called: Whispering Up A Storm In the Workover   Here’s a way you can spend 15 minutes on line, getting really angry, vent mightily while acting empowered and whispering in the Workover. It’s based on the idea that many whispers will grow into a storm [...]

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aworkcovervictimsdiary is getting under “their” skin!

By on November 24, 2012 in Bullying & Stress, Diary entries, Stuff

You may have heard, through the grapevine (comment section), that aworkcovervictimsdiary.com was, again, threatened with a most unfounded and utterly pathetic lawsuit for “defamation” by an “independent doctor“, a psychiatrist no less! The most unfounded and intimidating “defamation” allegation referred to two anonymously posted comments by two injured workers-dating back almost one year ago!!! -  [...]

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Social Club for Victorian injured workers (SIC)

By on November 15, 2012 in Psych, Resources, Stuff, WorkSafe Vic

Social Club for Victorian injured workers (SIC) The Social Club for Victorian Injured Workers (SIC) is a real-life social club for injured workers kick-started by aworkcovervictimsdiary in November 2012 whose prime purpose is to assist injured workers in meeting some of the social, adjustment needs, psychological issues and challenges during their injury or illness. The [...]

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Server issues

By on October 2, 2012 in Stuff

Unfortunately we continue to experience issues with our virtual private server… which means that we are gong to transfer our site again. Server issues As you may recall, a couple of weeks ago our site came under attack by WorkSafe Vic [or a rogue WorkSafe employee,or WorkSafe's new ? server settings]. This triggered a DoS [...]

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Workcovervictimsdiary new forum

By on September 17, 2012 in Diary entries, Resources, Stuff, workcover forum

We have a brand spanking new, smart and fast forum! We have, however, made the decision not to import all the data (posts and comments, as well as registered users) into our new forum, for potential security issues after our site was attacked by our very own adversarial workers compensation system! See article about DoS [...]

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WorkCover Denial of Service attack on a workcover victims diary

By on September 3, 2012 in Diary entries, Shame files, Stuff, WorkCover, WorkSafe Vic

Given the seriousness, maliciousness and viciousness of the  recent Denial of Service (DoS) attack on our website (workcover victims diary), by the WorkCover Authority, I believe this attack is well worth [re]publishing. WorkCover Denial of Service attack on a workcover victims diary In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) [...]

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Transfer of aworkcovervictimsdiary

By on August 30, 2012 in Diary entries, Stuff

As you know, aworkcovervictimsdiary has been experiencing major problems, with our site being inaccessible or very slow over the past 2 days. This is likely to have been caused by a denial of access – a kind of massive traffic jam – generated by an “entity” hiding behind a secure server, who has been attempting [...]

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A workcover Victims Diary: Intentional attack on site or over-popularity?

By on August 29, 2012 in Diary entries, Stuff, WTF

Yesterday, a workcover victims diary was off line most of the day, in particular access was impossible in the afternoon and most of the evening. Our host service provider explained to us that there was too much traffic on our site and this can be caused by an intentional attack or simply by over-popularity of [...]

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Real agenda exposed: O’Farrell Government prefers gambling health for profits

By on August 17, 2012 in Politics, Stuff, WTF

This is quite an amazing but telling show of ignorance by the O’Farrell Goverment: The health of workers is no concern just as long as wealthy gamblers are happy.  This government clealy puts profits above people – they’ve done it with Workers Compensation laws and this just confirms their real agenda. Croupiers gambling with their [...]

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Injured workers beware – tax changes effective 1 July 2012

By on July 10, 2012 in Stuff, WorkCover NSW

It has come to our attention that injured workers whose weekly pay appear to have been cut, have actually been taxed! Not only has the NSW Government butchered injured workers’ benefits, but at the same time and unbeknownst to most, tax changes are effective 1 July 2012! Injured workers beware – tax changes effective 1 [...]

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Silly Sunday – injured workers need a good laugh

By on June 3, 2012 in Fun, Stuff, workcover forum

Can you believe it’s been months since I last did a “funny”. Well, given the amount of pain I am in and the – frankly- ridiculous situation I find myself in, I woke up overnight deciding that I was going to implement a “Silly Sunday” on our blog! Yikes! Time to get back in the [...]

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Limbo spurs suicide attempts

By on May 16, 2012 in Stuff

I was drawn to this article in today’s SMH about the desperate plight of refugees.  I can’t help but make comparisons between these poor people and many who are currently on workers compensation.   Both systems fail to acknowledge the suffering being endured at the hands of systems that don’t work.  I know of many injured [...]

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Evidence that money breeds greed and kills empathy

By on May 15, 2012 in Corruption, Psych, Ramblings & Whinges, Stuff

I can’t help it, the social scientist in me won out. I just came across a very interesting article in the New Scientist.   I think it offers an interesting insight into why the workers compensation is the way it is.  It doesn’t address this system directly, but it does highlight why the concerns of injured [...]

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aworkcovervictimsdiary milestones and blog design

By on May 15, 2012 in Diary entries, Stuff

Today, marks a significant milestone for this blog. aworkcovervictimsdiary.com has had just over 150,000 page views since it’s launch in August 2011 (8-9 months ago only!). Given its increasing popularity and growing impact, some of us have been wondering whether it’s time to rethink our blog’s design and layout? Make it more official-looking? aworkcovervictimsdiary milestones and [...]

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