Notice After Notice — Part 7: Obstruction is against the law! - March 2022

28 March 2022

 

“I’m frightened”: The email to Professor Hayden Ramsay, Cheryl Han and Chris Minns

By 28 March 2022, I had stopped believing anyone was going to voluntarily do the right thing.

But I still kept asking.

I kept pleading.

I kept documenting.

This email was sent to:

• Professor Hayden Ramsay, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Ethics) at the University;
• Chris Minns, Member for Kogarah and later Premier of New South Wales; and
• Cheryl Han from the Kogarah electorate office.

I was reporting that I had effectively been cut off from proper reporting pathways inside my own workplace.

I wrote that a WHS executive staff member had blocked my access to Service Central and other communication channels, preventing me from reporting what I described as ongoing misconduct by HR executives, the return-to-work coordinator, and WHS management.  

Regarding obstruction, see also http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/04/blocking-mobbing-and-truth-2020.html and http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/04/employment-lawyer-3-part-5-unacceptable.html

I explained that I could not even get through to Professor Hayden Ramsay’s office directly.

I described having to hide my phone number simply to leave a voicemail with his executive officer after repeated failures to get through normally.  

That is what this had become.

Not workplace support.

Not injury management.

Not safety.

A worker trying to find any remaining pathway to be heard.

Weeks earlier, on 24 February 2022, I had already sent a message to ACU’s “Respect. Now. Always.” crisis number because I no longer knew where else to report what was happening. See http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2026/05/respect-now-always-except-when-i-needed.html 

That service appeared primarily intended for sexual assault and harassment matters involving students. 

But I wrote:

“Where else was I able to formally report this reckless and wilful misconduct…?”  

I was describing ongoing psychological harm, financial harm, isolation, and fear.

At the same time, I was still asking for the basics required under workplace and workers compensation law:

• implementation of my injury management plan;
• contact with my GP;
• proper return-to-work coordination;
• restoration of entitlements; and
• returning to my job at the Strathfield campus library.  

I wrote that my GP was still waiting to be contacted to begin developing a return-to-work plan aligned with the agreed injury management plan.  

That alone should never have been happening this far into a workers compensation process.

Why I Was Contacting My Elected Representative

From October 2021, the reason I was reaching out to my elected representative was because I had already escalated the matter to the authorities that were supposed to protect workers.

I had reported the workplace health and safety issues.

I had reported the ongoing harm.

I had escalated the matter to SafeWork NSW, the regulator responsible for enforcing workplace health and safety laws.

I had also escalated the conduct of the insurer to SIRA NSW, the regulator responsible for overseeing the workers compensation scheme.

Yet the situation continued.

The injury management plan remained unimplemented.

My treating doctor was still waiting to be contacted.

The return-to-work process that was supposed to support recovery had not commenced.

My entitlements remained withheld.

The financial harm continued to escalate.

The psychological harm continued to escalate.

And the very systems that were supposed to provide protection appeared unwilling to intervene.

That is why I sought help from my local Member of Parliament, Chris Minns, because there had been a serious failure of regulatory oversight.

I was asking for help because the regulators themselves had become part of the problem.

After years of trying to resolve the situation through the proper channels, I was left doing something no injured worker should have to do:

Begging an elected representative to help ensure that workplace safety laws and workers compensation obligations were actually enforced by the regulators SafeWork NSW and SIRA NSW. 

Attached to that same email was a SafeWork NSW poster explaining what should happen when a worker is injured.

The contrast is impossible to ignore.

 

According to the poster:

1. Tell your employer.
2. See your doctor.
3. Recover at work.

I had already done those things.

What I was still waiting for was the system to do its part.

I also warned Professor Ramsay that my family may be resubmitting their formal complaint after what I described as harassment, privacy breaches, and distortion of facts involving HR executives.  

I specifically asked that it not be pushed back through the same internal processes again.

Because by then, trust in those processes had collapsed. See http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/07/intimidating-family-as-community.html

And near the end of the email, I wrote something that still stays with me:

“I’m frightened, so please take these complaints seriously, before it’s too late.”  

I attached medical documentation.

I attached signed consent forms authorising contact with my treating professionals.

I attached evidence showing ongoing trauma linked to workplace victimisation.  

I also wrote:

“I’ve exhausted every avenue for help to assert my employee and human rights.”  

And still, nothing meaningful changed.

This was not a failure of notice.

It was notice after notice after notice.

Sent to university leadership.

Sent to elected representatives.

Sent while I was explicitly stating I was frightened and traumatised.

And still, the silence continued.

And so did the institutionalised wage theft…

Source: contemporaneous record of events - Document 298. 

A reminder of what got me here: 

http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/05/i-advise-you-make-workers-compensation.html