{"id":31023,"date":"2016-06-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/premier-weatherill-horrified-by-delay-over-chemo-bungle-compo\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T00:00:00","slug":"premier-weatherill-horrified-by-delay-over-chemo-bungle-compo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/premier-weatherill-horrified-by-delay-over-chemo-bungle-compo\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Weatherill horrified by delay over chemo bungle compo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Premier Jay Weatherill has admitted he was horrified to discover his government was \u201cswinging the lead\u201d over compensation payments to the victims of the state\u2019s chemo dose bungle.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019ve got somebody that\u2019s facing a life-threatening circumstance, then you get cracking,\u201d Mr Weatherill told David and Will on FIVEAA Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appeared to us as though we were treating these people like they\u2019ve just gone A over T at a government office, and it was just going through the usual slow process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looked like what we were doing was swinging the lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO JAY WEATHERILL HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/268043155&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mr Weatherill said he was horrified to discover compensation payments were being held up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told that that part of government that manages compensation would deal with the matter in what\u2019s described as a model litigant,\u201d Mr Weatherill said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means when government is involved in a legal dispute, it doesn\u2019t play hardball. It behaves generously, it doesn\u2019t take sharp legal points, it gets on and supports people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe learnt little over a week ago to our horror that that wasn\u2019t what was happening. People who were affected by this were feeling as though there was delay occurring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Weatherill said that reports the government had told victims to \u201clawyer up\u201d had been misinterpreted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is entirely appropriate that we ask people to get lawyers so that the matter could be properly assessed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is if we gave somebody an offer and they didn\u2019t have a lawyer, we\u2019d be justly criticised for just trying to lowball them with an offer that wasn\u2019t appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/jake-lever-outed-on-twitter-by-taylor-walker\">CROWS YOUNGSTER OUTED ON TWITTER BY TEX WALKER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/leon-byner\/expert-warns-of-more-chinese-worker-rorts-under-fta\">EXPERT&nbsp;WARNS OF MORE WORKER RORTS UNDER CHINA TRADE AGREEMENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Jay Weatherill has admitted he was horrified to discover his government was \u201cswinging the lead\u201d over compensation payments to the victims of the state\u2019s chemo dose bungle. \u201cIf you\u2019ve got somebody that\u2019s facing a life-threatening circumstance, then you get cracking,\u201d Mr Weatherill told David and Will on FIVEAA Breakfast. \u201cIt appeared to us as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-31023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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