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A tribunal has found an interpreter suffered a compensable psychological injury from her perception of being bullied while deployed to Nauru, finding a regulator's reasonable-management-action defence failed through its inability to prove such action occurred.

A tribunal has upheld a claim from a computer worker, who began experiencing neck, shoulder, arm and hand pain when her workload increased, that muscle tension arising from workplace stressors was the main cause of her condition.

A tribunal has affirmed a decision to suspend permanent impairment compensation to an injured worker who refused to attend a return-to-work rehabilitation program organised by his employer, finding he had no reasonable excuse for his actions.

A tribunal has upheld a decision to deny compensation to an Australian Federal Police officer who sustained a psychological injury from being disciplined for drinking a beer at an overseas workplace, finding his position required a particularly high standard of behaviour.

A tribunal has set aside the decision to reject a depression claim from a man who was s-xually assaulted at work as a teenager, after finding the medical evidence relied on to block the claim failed to consider all the trauma the Navy veteran had experienced.

An award-winning fraud analyst has won her compensation appeal after a tribunal found her computer work contributed significantly to her repetitive strain injury, rejecting her employer's claim the injury was caused by gardening.

A tribunal has rejected a claim for ongoing massage and acupuncture costs after concluding it had done little to improve a worker's condition despite 34 years of treatment and more than $110,000 worth of massages.

A Centrelink worker has been denied workers' compensation for her extreme mental distress, caused by a "demotion", with a tribunal classifying her condition as "normal mental functioning".

In a case involving a manager who was psychologically "destroyed" by her CEO, the Federal Court has ruled that the NSW Workers Compensation Act does not cap her access to damages under the Commonwealth Fair Work Act.

A machine operator who contracted chronic sinusitis while working in dusty conditions at a tip in Darwin, has been found to be permanently incapacitated by the condition.