Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023: committee

The question put

That the bill proposes a new definition of ‘mental injury’ and a new section 39(1), relating to entitlement to compensation. A mental injury is now an injury that ‘causes significant behavioural, cognitive or psychological dysfunction’, and to be entitled to compensation a mental injury must be ‘predominantly arising out of or in the course of any employment’. This is harsher than any Australian jurisdiction, and so I ask: why is Victoria becoming the worst place in the country in defining mental injuries?