Notice After Notice — Part 8 - Chris Minns does not care - March 2022

29 March 2022 

Urgent Plea to the Kogarah Electorate Office for a Meeting with Chris Minns

By 29 March 2022, I was no longer simply asking for assistance.

I was pleading for intervention.

Not just because of what my employer and insurer had done, but because the very regulators responsible for enforcing workplace safety and workers compensation compliance in New South Wales — SafeWork NSW and SIRA NSW — were refusing to act.

This email was sent directly to the Kogarah electorate office of Chris Minns, who at the time was the Leader of the Opposition and my elected representative.

And again, there was notice.

Clear notice.

Repeated notice.

Urgent notice.

I explained that I was exhausted, traumatised, unable to sleep, and terrified for my life. Yet even in that condition, I was still caring for others — supporting family, helping friends, and trying to thank neighbours who had shown kindness during one of the darkest periods of my life.  

By this point, I understood something that many psychologically injured workers eventually discover:

When psychosocial harm is involved, the system often stops functioning as protection and instead becomes part of the harm itself.

The issue was never an employment dispute. Is was a WHS issue that I raised at my work. 

Now I was explicitly raising concerns about regulatory failure — that SafeWork NSW and SIRA NSW were not enforcing compliance, not properly investigating, and not intervening despite repeated warnings and escalating evidence.

I was asking my elected representative to help because regulators with statutory responsibilities were failing to act while the harm continued escalating.

The final section of the email is difficult to reread now because it shows how serious the situation had already become:

“Please let Cheryl know I need that meeting with Chris now to save my life.”  

And then:

“I need inclusion to happen asap before I lose everything, including my life. I’m serious.”  

They were warnings sent to a parliamentary electorate office.

Warnings sent while describing ongoing regulatory inaction.

Warnings sent while repeatedly asking for intervention before irreversible harm occurred.

It was serious psychological and financial abuse! It was torture! It was coercive control! It’s the equivalent of domestic violence in the workplace! 

This is why the “Notice After Notice” series matters.

Because these emails show a chronology of repeated escalation, repeated requests for help, repeated disclosures of risk, and repeated opportunities for intervention.

And despite all of that, the silence (and indifference) continued…

And so did the institutionalised wage theft…

Source: contemporaneous record of events - Document 299