What the press (and others) say about ACC

The Listener calls for an honest debate about ACC and how it is funded. Future shock: what's the real reason taxpayers are being landed with massive ACC increases? (The Listener, editorial 24.10.09) PDF file 200K

Tim Hazledine, Professor of Economics at Auckland University exposes the absurdity of 'full funding' Compo scheme can still work without breaking the bank (NZ Herald 20.10.09)

NZ Herald business columnist David Chaplin queries ACC'c dodgy accounting: Is ACC broke or the levy too heavy? (NZ Herald 16.10.09)

ACC consultant and lawyer Don Rennie explains how 'full funding' is being used to distort ACC's financial situation: ACC deals with rights, not insurance (Dominion Post 13.10.09) - PDF file 195K.

Rod Oram: ACC - the political claims and the reality
Sunday Star Times - 15.3.09
“... there is a huge gap between the rhetoric of John Key and Smith, and reality…”

Brian Fallow: ACC hostage to a changing world
NZ Herald 12.3.09
“For the Government to wrap legitimate concerns about slippage in ACC's performance in a whole lot of shrill scaremongering and scapegoating is gratuitous…”

Govt got it wrong on ACC: actuaries
DomPost 12.3.09 (pdf file)
Actuaries have leapt to the defence of ACC, citing talk of financial strife and excessive liabilities as "ill-founded scaremongering" by a poorly informed government.

Rumoured sacking of both ACC chair and union representative politically motivated
Press Release by Association of Salaried Medical Specialists 09.03.09

See how The Standard pictured ACC when National announced the "crisis"..