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Title: Employers' Liability and Workers' Compensation: Australia
Contributor(s): Lunney, Mark  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2012
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12461
Abstract: Australia has a long history of workers' compensation legislation. Between 1900 and 1926, all states and territories except the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) had introduced workers' compensation legislation. The reasons for doing so mirrored those that had convinced the Westminster Parliament in London to introduce such legislation in 1897: concerns that the common law of negligence, with its defences of common employment, contributory negligence and assumption of risk did not operate fairly in relation to those workers injured as an inevitable consequence of industrialisation. Moreover, the rise of organised labour as a political force also contributed to the climate that allowed workers' compensation legislation to pass: "As was the case with preventative legislation [occupational health and safety legislation], the introduction of these laws was often bitterly contested by groups of employers, private insurers and others. It often took several attempts, the increased franchise or mobilisation of working class voters and over a decade (if not considerably longer) before workable and comprehensive schemes were achieved".
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Employers' Liability and Workers' Compensation, p. 1-61
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Place of Publication: Berlin, Germany
ISBN: 9783110269963
3110269961
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 180126 Tort Law
180118 Labour Law
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 480605 Tort law
480104 Labour law
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940499 Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 230499 Justice and the law not elsewhere classified
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/176098895
Series Name: Tort and Insurance Law
Series Number : 31
Editor: Editor(s): Ken Oliphant and Gerhard Wagner
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Law

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