"The opponent is wise. Whenever he can, he makes use of the easiest and most effective of his weapons: gossip. It doesn't take much effort to use it because others do the work for him.”
Paulo Coelho in The Manual of the Warrior of Light.
On 8 October 2020 at 3:36pm I sent an email to the WHS and Wellbeing manager.
The subject was: the claim # - updated certificate of capacity (with psychological guarding from the national manager of employment relations and safety).
I wrote:
“…Now that the harassment must legally stop from the individual in this role, I can focus entirely on my health and wellbeing. However, if no one provides the support I need, now both financial and a legitimate return to work plan to return to my professional role, I'll have to return full time on 2 November 2020. I'll inform my health professionals of this also. I've been inconvenienced for long enough and the initial workplace hazard was never addressed. At best, it's been a waste of time for me and I'm not going to be inconvenienced by a broken compensation system either. I've been deliberately marginalised and isolated for too long, but I will not be displaced as well or suffer financial hardship.
I’ve been gossiped about, slandered, judged, discriminated, harassed, violated, disrespected, offensively labelled, demeaned, humiliated etc. My intelligence has also been insulted and I've been denied input and respectful communication to return to work in a safe environment. I've had enough.
I'll go back to the toxic hazard that was never investigated and minimised, if not eliminated, but in the injured state I'm in because of the serious injuries caused by HR executives. They all failed me the one time I asked for support. They've wasted resources, time and caused greater health, wellbeing and safety issues. I'll go back full time, in the same environment… [The university] have wasted my time for trying to reasonably resolve a SafeWork issue.
…I prefer to go back to work and be a voice for a safer, more ethical organisation & I'll join the relevant committees to make it happen. This is better than be another broken human being in a broken system. I'm not too broken, l'm definitely not ill, but stubborn and resilient. Real empathy does not equate to weakness or illness, a great misconception that needs to be corrected. And I'm also not another number. Behind "the system" are human beings. If people don't give up from all the bullying, they give up because of "the system". How unjust, inefficient and expensive.
If I can share a brilliant quote from a book by Paulo Coelho, the renowned Brazilian author: "The opponent is wise. Whenever he can, he makes use of the easiest and most effective of his weapons: gossip. It doesn't take much effort to use it because others do the work for him. A few misdirected words can destroy months of dedication, years spent in search of harmony. The warrior of light is often the victim of this trick. He does not know where the blow came from and cannot prove that the gossip is false. Gossip does not allow him the right to defend back at his opponent. The warrior of light is not a coward." (Coelho, in The Manual of the Warrior of Light, p. 128).
I'll also forward this updated certificate of capacity to CCI. The first action in my letter to you was easier than expected, when given the right information. It's done…please support me to return to my work.”
Later that day, at 6:21pm, I emailed the senior claims “specialist” (?) at Catholic Church Insurance with the updated certificate of capacity that included the special request of psychological guarding (see http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/08/enter-unsafework-nsw-that-rtw-plan-i.html). I had not been appointed another case manager since about July / August 2020.
“Please find attached an updated certificate of capacity... The special consideration includes a note that requires I have psychological guarding from the individual who was still harassing me, by listing the position title on the certificate. It is now a legal requirement that this individual does not contact me again. I spoke with [my NTD] to extend the inability to work until Friday 30 October 2020, allowing me enough time to now properly focus on my health and wellbeing. I have also sent this certificate to [the university’s] Manager, WHS & Wellbeing, because I need to ensure I am guarded for safety and wellbeing and to now have a return to work plan communicated with me. Please communicate with [the WHS & Wellbeing manager] so we can organise a RTW plan…
… it's been very difficult for me to have endured slander from those few at my work during this time (mostly from HR people who don't know me and have deliberately isolated me) and then have all this independent assessment of my "health" without having ownership or being part of the conversation, when it is regarding my health. I know the compensation system is broken and I never wanted to rely on this. All I needed were reasonable adjustments to ensure I could function in my work in a safe environment. The environment is still a psychosocial hazard. There was no risk assessment done whatsoever. Just harassment and bullying directed at me.
… I also informed [the WHS & Wellbeing manager] if I don't have support soon with a RTW plan and I am not financially compensated so I don't face this hardship as well, I will return full time to the same environment I left on 2 July 2019. I will do so on 2 November 2020… I am resilient and I persevere, determined to be a voice in my workplace… to ensure a safer, respectful and ethical place to work and study in. Now that the harassment must legally stop as per special consideration on the attached certificate, I can return to my pre-injured state quickly and fairly.”
I repeat a quote from para. 207 of the Factual Investigation Report for Catholic Church Insurance:
"...I therefore demand Rena [Christmann] and [the HR associate director] leave me alone... I do not want communication from either of them again so I can feel safe and to heal."
Catholic Church Insurance were fully informed and aware of all this serious misconduct and WHS violations from the PCBU. I WAS DELIBERATELY IGNORED BY THE SENIOR CLAIMS MANAGER FROM CATHOLIC CHURCH INSURANCE.
Why would they do this rather than comply with WHS and workers compensation regulations and ensure I recover in my job? It would have minimised the risks, financial damage and liability CCI agreed to cause! They must have assumed I was an easy target to destroy. How immoral and evil.
Catholic Church Insurance have proven to be the most immoral insurers in an already abusive and corrupt system. The hypocrisy and moral betrayal of the Catholic Social Justice principles and Catholic ethos and values is the most harmful of all.
But the NSW STATE INSURANCE REGULATORY AUTHORITY have gone out of their way to allow this self-insurer workers compensation fraud to happen for around five years! Why?
It’s in the public interest that we all know the truthful answer to this question.
This post is based on documents 104 and 108. It displays adverse action for requesting generally protected workplace rights, privacy violations, deception, workers compensation fraud and reckless conduct that condones engaging in WHS breaches and creating psychosocial hazards, not managing the risks as the PCBU is reasonably expected to do so, BY LAW.
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Further reading from regulators, NSW Government and even a fob off to the Fair Work Ombudsman (and we saw how that turned out for me. There’s more to come. See http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/07/apvo-court-registrars-response.html).
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