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“R U OK?” is a
good question.

But what happens
to you after you
answer it?

Australia has spent twenty years learning to ask "are you OK?"  But nothing has been built for the person whose honest answer costs them their job, their health or their reputation. When speaking up about injury, safety or wrongdoing triggers retaliation, workers face years of process against systems that are slow by design, unaffordable to challenge, psychologically damaging, and insured on only one side of the table. We have a system where the employer's defence is a claim and a manageable tax deductible business expense; while the worker's is everything they have, their dignity, their savings, their careers; and sometimes their lives.
 

DONE TALKING is being raised to promote long overdue reforms. Such as  legal-expense protections and insurance products for workers, a fitting end to incentivised claim denial, a real Whistleblower Protection Authority, reforming section 570 of the Fair Work Act; restricting NDAs across all workplace harm, and banning insurance coverage against work-safety fines; as the national WHS review recommended and every safety minister has since agreed.

Every reform championed by a unified brand with a powerful message, until they each become law;  as an independent Australian not-for-profit in formation.

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THE SUPPORT.

DONE TALKING is a not-for-profit in formation, a call for movement. It starts with workers, families, professionals, public servants and employers who know the system is failing, adding their names, skills and backing demanding the protections Australians need, but are unable to access.

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THE RECORD.

The system's failures are already well documented. By ombudsmen, parliament, committees and insurers own data. It's just never been assembled in one place where it can't be ignored. The Record collates the findings, the statistics and the questions no regulator will answer, we need them in writing, then answered.

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THE CAMPAIGN.

Every single reform we stand for has already been recommended, decades ago, then filed and forgotten. The Campaign carries them all together under one empathetic brand: calling for real protection, action & accountability. We have been vulnerable and powerless for far too long,

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At what point did we accept this status quo?

At what point did we decide this is acceptable? That the person who finally speaks up, as they've been encouraged do to; should slowly suffer, lose, slowly, expensively, dangerously, and alone?
 

A duty of care no one is personally
accountable for, is a suggestion.
 

A right that costs six figures to exercise, and
pays back nothing when you win, is not a right.
 

A compensation scheme that leaves workers
sicker than it found them, is not compensation.
 

A protection law that has protected
almost no one, is not protection.
 

None of this should be accepted as normal. It isn't. Never challenged by anyone, in mass, with receipts, collective will, reach and the patience to finish it.
 

We did not accept this.

And we are DONE TALKING.

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At what point did we accept this status quo?

At what point did we decide this is simply what happens? That the person who speaks up should lose, slowly, expensively, dangerously, and alone?
 

A duty of care no one is personally
accountable for, is a suggestion.
 

A right that costs six figures to exercise, and pays back nothing when you win, is not a right.
 

A compensation scheme that leaves workers sicker than it found them, is not compensation.
 

A protection law that has protected
almost no one, is not protection.
 

None of this is normal. It was just never challenged by anyone with the receipts, the will, the endurance, the reach and the patience to finish it.
 

We did not accept it.

And we are DONE TALKING.

In the interim, stay
strong & stay safe.

DONETALKING.COM.AU is being built alongside the required structure, exacting work, resource procurement and legal processes this endeavor demands: such as incorporation as an independent Australian not-for-profit, a governing board, and registration with the national charities regulator. Until that structure is in place, DONE TALKING is not taking enquiries, correspondence or approaches through any individual, company or entity; nor able to offer an advice, service, support or engagement of any kind, through any channels. We look forward to existing formally, to bring Action, Change & Transparency.
 

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In the interim, stay
strong & stay safe.

DONETALKING.COM.AU is being built alongside the structure, work, resource procurement and legal processes this endeavor demands: incorporation as an independent Australian not-for-profit, a governing board, and registration with the national charities regulator. Until that structure is in place, DONE TALKING is not taking enquiries, correspondence or approaches through any individual, company or entity; nor able to offer an advice, service, support or engagement of any kind, through any channels. We look forward to existing formally, to bring Action, Change & Transparency.
 

If this page raises anything for you, support is available now: 
Lifeline 13 11 14     |     13YARN 13 92 76     |     Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636

© Done Talking — an Australian not-for-profit in formation.

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