Partners
Be part of system-wide change to benefit all Australians, including your customers, clients and stakeholders.
By connecting the following organisations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, we form a powerful national alliance to drive change.
Partners
Comcare
Comcare’s role is to support participation and productivity through healthy and safe workplaces that minimise the impact of harm in workplaces covered by Comcare.
The Comcare scheme works in partnership with employers and their employees to prevent workplace injuries, appropriately uses regulatory sanctions for any demonstrable failure of the employer’s duty of care, empowers employers to work with their employees to maintain an employee with a workplace injury at work, or to achieve an early, safe and durable return to work, and provides employees with a workplace injury with a statutory package of economic and non-economic benefits.
Website: www.comcare.gov.au
Insurance Council of Australia
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) is the representative body of the general insurance industry in Australia. ICA members represent more than 90 per cent of total premium income written by general insurers. Insurance Council members, both insurers and reinsurers, are a significant part of the Australian financial services system.
Some members are involved as underwriters or claims agents for state and territory-based workers’ compensation schemes in Australia, including schemes in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory as well as Comcare.
Members provide insurance products ranging from those usually purchased by individuals (such as home and contents insurance, travel insurance, motor vehicle insurance) to those purchased by small businesses and larger organisations (such as product and public liability insurance, professional indemnity insurance, commercial property, and directors and officers insurance).
Website: www.insurancecouncil.com.au
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
The role of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations is to foster a productive and competitive labour market through employment policies and programs that increase workforce participation, and facilitate jobs growth through policies that promote fair, productive, flexible and safe workplaces.
Website: www.dewr.gov.au
EML
EML is a national personal injury claims management specialist with over 1,400 people across Australia. Experts in all aspects of workers compensation, EML's people strive to deliver outstanding customer service and innovative claims management for our customers.
EML continues to build on the value that comes with being a mutual, reinvesting part of our profits to provide a range of benefits and practical services which can help our customers create safer workplaces and achieve better return to work outcomes.
Website: www.eml.com.au
Royal Australasian College of Physicians
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) trains, educates and advocates on behalf of more than 25,000 physicians and trainee physicians across Australia and New Zealand. The College represents a broad range of medical specialties including general medicine, paediatrics and child health, cardiology, respiratory medicine, neurology, oncology, public health medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, palliative medicine, sexual health medicine, rehabilitation medicine, geriatric medicine and addiction medicine. Beyond the drive for medical excellence, the RACP is committed to developing health and social policies which bring vital improvements to the wellbeing of patients.
Website: www.racp.edu.au
Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
The Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM) is a Faculty of the RACP that connects and represents Occupational and Environmental Medicine Fellows and trainees in Australia and New Zealand. AFOEM is committed to establishing and maintaining a high standard of training and practise in Occupational and Environmental Medicine in Australia and New Zealand through the training and continuing professional development of our members and advocating on their behalf to shape the future of healthcare.
Australian Council of Trade Unions
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is the peak body for Australian unions, made up of 38 affiliated unions who together represent about 1.8 million workers and their families.
The ACTU's role as peak body is to co-ordinate union campaigns, represent workers at a range of government and non-government forums in Australia and overseas, and to provide industrial, policy and other support to affiliates.
Website: www.actu.org.au
National Disability Insurance Scheme
The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is an independent statutory agency. NDIS's role is to implement the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which will support a better life for hundreds of thousands of Australians with a significant and permanent disability and their families and carers.
Website: www.ndis.gov.au
Department of Health and Aged Care
The role of the Department of Health and Aged Care is to develop and deliver policies and programs and advise the Australian Government on health, aged care and sport. We work with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure better health for all Australians.
Website: www.health.gov.au
National Mental Health Commission
The Commission provides evidence and advice on ways to continuously improve Australia’s mental health and suicide prevention system, and act as a catalyst for change to achieve those improvements.
Website: www.mentalhealthcommission.gov.au
Transport Accident Commission
The Transport Accident Commission (TAC) is a Victorian Government-owned organisation set up to pay for treatment and benefits for people injured in transport accidents, promote road safety and help Victorians get their lives back on track.
The TAC is funded through the TAC charge which is a component of the payment made by Victorian motorists when they register their vehicles each year with VicRoads. Covering the costs of injuries which are the direct result of the driving of a car, motorcycle, bus, train or tram and provide support services for people injured in a transport accident as a driver, passenger, pedestrian, motorcyclist, and in many cases, a cyclist.
Website: www.tac.vic.gov.au
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