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Kōrero: Workplace safety and accident compensation

Objecting to ACC levies

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Objecting to ACC levies

Occupations with a high accident rate, such as farming, pay higher levies to the Accident Compensation Corporation than safer occupations. This 2004 cartoon shows a farmer telling his farm hand that he cannot afford a safety cab on his tractor because of the cost of the levy.

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Garrick Tremain

Reference: Otago Daily Times, 7 August 2004

by Garrick Tremain

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Hazel Armstrong, Workplace safety and accident compensation – Accident compensation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/cartoon/23286/objecting-to-acc-levies (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hazel Armstrong, i tāngia i te 2 March 2010.