26 & 27 April 2022
“I Need the Injury Management Plan to Be Implemented Please”
By April 2022, I was no longer explaining what had happened.
The records already existed.
The injury had already been reported.
The workers compensation claim had already been lodged.
The Injury Management Plan had already been issued.
The problem was not a lack of information.
The problem was that nothing seemed to be happening.
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On 26 April 2022, I wrote to Cheryl Han at the Kogarah Electorate Office.
The email was short.
This quote captured years of waiting:
“Is there an update?”
I explained why I was asking.
And I reminded the electorate office of a simple reality:
The university had a legal obligation to take care of me…
I ended the email with one word.
“Please.”
There was nothing unreasonable in that request.
I was asking whether there had been any progress.
Whether anyone had acted.
Whether anyone had listened.
Whether anyone cared.
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The following day, 27 April 2022, I wrote again.
This time the subject line itself explained the problem:
“I need the Injury Management Plan to be implemented please.”
Not created.
Not drafted.
Not discussed.
Implemented.
Because by this point everyone already knew there was an Injury Management Plan.
The university knew.
The insurer knew.
The regulators knew.
The electorate office knew.
The question was never whether the plan existed.
The question was why it was not being implemented.
That is what stands out to me when I read these emails.
They show that the issue had become incredibly simple.
A worker was asking for an existing statutory process to function.
A worker was asking for obligations to be honoured.
A worker was asking for support that had already been recognised as necessary.
And yet I still found myself writing email after email, notice after notice, asking for the same thing.
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The silence that followed is difficult to forget, because silence is also a response.
When somebody asks, “Is there an update?”, and there is none;
When somebody says, “I need the Injury Management Plan to be implemented please”, and nothing changes;
The message received is clear.
By April 2022, I was not fighting for new rights.
I was fighting for existing obligations to be honoured.
That is what these emails show.
Everybody knew.
And I kept writing.
Notice after notice.
Source: contemporaneous record of events - Documents 310-311.
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