1 September, 2008
Safety Week is part of an ongoing ACC campaign to educate New Zealanders about the risks in the home and to encourage us all to think about taking some, often quite basic, safety steps to prevent accidents. One in seven New Zealanders will be injured in the home each year.
Read full release >>1 September, 2008
Research concludes that ACC’s contribution to New Zealand society arises largely from its no-fault and comprehensive features. They say there is strong evidence demonstrating that no-fault schemes are linked with better client outcomes, higher coverage, lower administration and legal expenses and fewer delays in payments.
Read full speech >>1 September, 2008
Too often safety and injury prevention initiatives in the community don't get the recognition they deserve. So it's great to have the opportunity to celebrate the multitude of successes and sing the praises of the people who carry out the hard work usually on not much more than passion.
Read full release >>29 August, 2008
7 August, 2008
Speech delivered to the New Zealand Chemical Industry Council by ACC Minister Maryan Street, on behalf of the Minister of Labour and Minister of the Environment Trevor Mallard
Read full speech >>8 July, 2008
Ministers welcome the Health Select Committee report on Ambulance Services as an important step forward.
Read full release >>26 June, 2008
More than 400,000 workers in casual and seasonal employment stand to gain improved accident compensation cover if they are injured under legislation passed tonight. The legislation will also ensure employees who develop a mental injury after being exposed to a sudden traumatic event during the course of their work will in future be entitled to ACC.
Read full release >>17 June, 2008
More than 400,000 casual and seasonal workers -- about 20% of the workforce -- to benefit
Read full release >>17 June, 2008
The second reading speech for the bill which continues the government’s commitment to a fair and sustainable ACC scheme.
Read full speech >>6 June, 2008
Hundreds of thousands of injured New Zealanders annually would be less protected if the ACC scheme is privatised
Read full release >>8 May, 2008
Informal home-based carers of ACC claimants to get an increase in hourly payments.
Read full release >>10 April, 2008
Speech delivered by ACC Minister Maryan Street to the AGM of the New Zealand Association of Accredited Employers
Read full speech >>9 April, 2008
Notes for speech delivered by ACC Minister Maryan Street to the Council for Socially Responsible Investment annual conference at AUT University.
Read full speech >>28 March, 2008
ACC Minister Maryan Street welcomes a range of new measures designed to reduce the high number of motorcycle casualties on New Zealand roads.
Read full release >>26 February, 2008
From this week ACC will pay an additional $25 million a year to contracted agencies providing home-based support for injured New Zealanders and their families.
Read full release >>26 January, 2008
Speech notes for Inaugural Public Health Law Summer School: University of Otago Faculty of Law and Wellington School of Medicine.
Read full speech >>20 December, 2007
ACC Minister Maryan Street encourages people to remember to take basic safety precautions when embarking on their summer holidays.
Read full release >>19 December, 2007
Most employers will pay less in ACC levies next year, while there will be some increases for workers and motorists,
Read full release >>18 December, 2007
ACC has developed a challenging work programme to review operational issues raised by a report examining the funding and accreditation of physiotherapy services
Read full release >>18 December, 2007
An extra 760 people a year are expected to get ACC cover for work-related diseases after a decision to add a raft of new ones to the Schedule 2 list
Read full release >>13 December, 2007
Future Directions for ACC
Read full speech >>13 December, 2007
Employees who develop a mental injury after being exposed to a sudden traumatic event during the course of their work will in future be entitled to ACC, says ACC Minister Maryan Street.
Read full release >>13 December, 2007
ACC Minister moves first reading of amending legislation for ACC
Read full speech >>13 December, 2007
ACC Minister Maryan Street today marked 40 years of the ACC scheme at a symposium in Auckland.
Read full release >>16 November, 2007
“Review of the Way in Which Physiotherapy Services are Funded and Accredited by ACC”is released.
Read full release >>19 September, 2007
The National party wants to scrap our world-leading, no fault ACC legislation because it just doesn't understand it, said ACC Minister Ruth Dyson today.
Read full release >>28 July, 2007
A joint release from Ruth Dyson, Minister for ACC and Peter Brown, Deputy Leader New Zealand First
Read full release >>11 July, 2007
Ross Wilson has been appointed as the new chair of the Accident Compensation Corporation Board.
Read full release >>23 May, 2007
The ActiveSmart website is one of many tools now available to Kiwis to encourage a healthy, long life, with less risk of injury
Read full release >>16 May, 2007
The National Party is deliberately misleading the public about ACC levies in order to try to privatise the ACC scheme
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