Psychological injury claims are exploding, but the Coalition and unions think the Minns government is making the wrong workers pay for a lax system.

NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman has rejected the claim the Coalition is acting as a “proxy” for the unions or the Greens, despite joining hands to oppose Labor’s workers comp reform.

The NSW Coalition has made strange bedfellows with the state’s unions and the Greens over a Bill they say is “mean and nasty” to injured workers.