Courage
The story of five women who connected via Workplace Chaplain Kathie Melocco and social media to fight against the economic and systems abuse inflicted on tens of thousands of injured workers. This powerful episode follows these courageous women who speak their truth as they expose how the $60 billion Workers' Compensation Scheme has failed them and their families. For decades, this system funded by compulsory premiums collected by Government, has neglected injured workers, branding them as malingerers all while perpetrating mental, physical, and economic abuse rooted in outdated principles of colonialism and sexism. Join us in exploring their journey of restorative justice, healing and their demand for safer systems for all.
Expert Led
Our work has involved speaking to hundreds of doctors, claims managers, rehabilitation providers, insurers, financial institutions and lawyers. All say the system has been built to harm. A special episode of Shattered is devoted to speaking with the experts who all share their opinions on what needs to be done. It is a finance system delivering health and that is not compatible to return to work or recovery. Lives have been shattered for decades with no accountability for the harm that has been done to tens of thousands of injured people.
Elevating Voices
Five Women Join Kathie
GIDII Advocacy has worked quietly behind the scenes offering support, guidance where helpful and advocacy with 5 women for the past 3 years. Our aim has been to elevate their voices, the issues they stand for and to address the harm caused to each of their lives. The Shattered Docuseries is the culmination of all of this work.
Our goal is always for restorative justice and appropriate compensation. It is also to ensure this never ever happens again.
Updates:
Tina has successfully called out the intersectionality of financial systems through her work and story on the ineligibility of women to access loans whilst on workers' compensation. Injured people are financially discriminated against in financial products.
Glenda has called out statutory harm by poor government policy that fails to make insurers obliged to act in good faith when dealing with an injured worker.
Ballina has called out Independent Medical Examinations (IMEs) for being medico legal reports and not doctor led care reports. These reports often contradict patient care and health imperatives of the injured.
Nicole has called out Indigenous Health and the right to culturally appropriate care.
Claim 333 has called out SIRA for not investigating complaints appropriately.
Sarah has called out the system for ignoring families in the care of their loved ones and the central role they play in assisting recovery and return to work.
Kathie has led the women using her years of advocacy background to drive Shattered's profile agenda that has already delivered tangible results. Her motivation has been driven by the catastrophic claims experience she had in the system and to stop the harm of others.
Note: Not all results are conclusive but change takes time and persistence. There is power in unity and voice to issues that must be elevated.
Research Driven
GIDII advocacy has spent months trawling legislation, reviewing parliamentary inquiry submissions and academic research. What we have found is a system that refuses to enact recommendations that will address the harm, over politicization of the health of injured people that denies them care and a system where money is going to everyone except where it should go, and that is to the injured to get them back to work and to health.
Town Hall Gatherings
GIDII Advocacy has traversed around the State, several times, meeting with the injured in their homes, in coffee shops and hearing first hand of the devastation that has been caused by this antiquated system.
Educating Policy Makers
We have been the thorn in policy makers and systems' administrators sides for months. Change is messy. Change takes courage and change can be uncomfortable. We make no apology for demanding that sick, vulnerable people who are unable to advocate for themselves deserve care and respect, not abuse.
Educating the Media
Media stories come and go. In the case of Workers' Compensation there is a format. It is usually a government underpayment or cruel policy issue, followed by a living experience of abuse. We seek to change that.
The scale of this abuse is unprecedented and it has been going on for decades.
Just like all social issues that require media education our work this year has been to place on the agenda that there is much more going on here than mismanagement of government resources.
This abuse is at scale and incentivizes others to harm.
It is one of the biggest scandals this country has ever known, a population of people who all they did was get injured at work, only to be punished, humiliate, degraded and forgotten by society and trapped in a maze of bureaucratic entanglement from which there is no recovery.
Synopsis
The Shattered DocuSeries is produced by GIDII Advocacy working to end moral injury with the goal to improve equity for the vulnerable across the core plinths of
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Financial Services
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Health
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Government.
We believe that film is one of the most powerful tools of an advocacy campaign to bring about change and encourage others to take action, leading to the dismantling of harmful systems.
The Shattered Documentary Series looks at social issues where the narrative construct has become dysfunctional and requires correction. It is the presented lived and living human experiences that the Shattered DocuSeries shares for society and key decision stakeholders to reflect upon and apply social impact outcomes.
Episodes are based on lived and living experiences, beliefs, worldviews, re-imagination of the future, reflection and action based learnings.
Episode 2
The Punishment of
Money
Coming Soon
Episode 3
Doctor
Doctor
In Review
Episode 4
Royal Commissions Examined