Notice After Notice — Part 1: Email to Chris Minns’ Kogarah Electorate Office and University Governance - March 2022

4 March 2022

Subject: “Please support my return to work asap”

At 12:38am on 4 March 2022, I sent another email.

Not my first.

Not my last. 

By this point, I had spent months writing relentlessly to governance, regulators, the union, and the Kogarah electorate office — trying to secure something that should never have required begging in the first place:

safe recovery, lawful support, and return to my job.

This email was sent directly to Professor Hayden Ramsay, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Ethics), and to the Kogarah electorate office connected to then Opposition Leader Chris Minns.

The subject line was simple:

“Please support my return to work asap.”

That was all I wanted.

Support.

By March 2022, I was explicitly describing escalating psychological harm, prolonged isolation, financial devastation, failed return-to-work obligations, and the complete absence of meaningful intervention despite repeated notice being given to multiple institutions.

I wrote:

“Please get me … in my job asap. I can’t tolerate this negligence and cruelty anymore.”

I explained that no return-to-work coordination had occurred with my GP, despite this being a fundamental workers’ compensation obligation. I described how the Injury Management Plan issued by the insurer had never been implemented.

I explained that workplace communication itself had become traumatising.

“It’s a symptom of trauma to avoid triggers and protect myself from anymore harm.”

And still, despite the trauma, despite the fear, despite the exhaustion, I continued asking for help.

Practical help.

Human help.

“I’m begging for someone from work to call me and start supporting my recovery.”

Reading this email now, what strikes me most is the clarity.

I was directly telling senior governance and an elected representative’s office:

• I was not coping,
• I was frightened,
• I was isolated,
• I needed support,
• I needed lawful return-to-work assistance,
• and I needed someone to intervene before the harm became irreversible.

These communications were sent openly and directly to people in positions of authority.

I even explained why returning to work mattered so deeply.

“I need my job because it was my purpose to serve the university community.”

That sentence captures everything.

After two decades serving the university community, I was fighting for my statutory entitlements, for a psychosocially safe work environment, and a compliant and operationally actioned return to work plan.

I was trying to preserve dignity and still trying to believe somebody inside governance, ethics leadership, or public office might finally stop and recognise what was happening.

Instead, the silence continued.

And so did the emails.

And the institutionalised wage theft continued…

Source: contemporaneous record of events - Document 292