Save ACC from Australian Insurance Companies!

"If we want to save our world class ACC from the clutches of Australian insurance companies, we must look carefully at the main parties' policies," CTU president Ross Wilson said today."Labour Party ACC policy, announced today, commits to retaining ACC as a fully public, social insurance scheme."

"Labour has rebuilt ACC into one of the best and most cost-effective schemes of its type and ACC Minister Ruth Dyson should get a lot of the credit for that."

"There has been a 60% reduction in workplace fatalities in the last two years and rehabilitation and compensation is better than it has ever been."

"By contrast the National Party would again allow Australian insurance companies and its mates on the Business Roundtable to plunder our world-renowned scheme at the expense of injured workers."

"Australian HIH Insurance led the rush to privatisation under National in 1998 and collapsed in the largest financial fraud in Australian history," Ross Wilson said.