Laws have passed ensuring firefighters get faster access to compensation if diagnosed with one of 22 diseases deemed to be work related. The laws which have been debated yesterday and today, include “presumptive compensation” meaning a worker doesn’t have to prove that firefighting was the cause of their cancer when they make a claim and John Oliver, Queensland Secretary of the United Firefighters Union of Australia joined Sofie Formica.

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