Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (14:05): (964) My question is to the Minister for WorkSafe and the TAC. My constituent Mr Crisdale of Hazelwood North sustained a workplace injury. He negotiated with WorkCover some eight years ago. He receives no fortnightly payments – he lives on his own superannuation and savings – but he has received firewood for the past eight years under a WorkCover order. He has a combustion heater as his only form of heating. He must have a stable and warm home. He does not and cannot collect his own firewood, but because of this government’s ridiculous aversion and opposition to timber and firewood and despite the Leader of the Government in this house saying last month:
A lot of people still rely on it for their heating …
WorkCover has banned his firewood delivery. So I ask the WorkSafe minister: will you review and rescind this ban to provide my constituent with his only source of heating?
