Government administration and defence

This industry employs 20,964 or 16.7% of all working Territorians¹

The main areas of employment are:

• State (Territory) government administration
• Local government administration
• Defence (Regulated by Comcare)

In 2019–20, workers compensation payments totalled $3.993m² through 220 claims, and resulted in 860 weeks³ of lost work.

The main mechanism of injury for serious injury claims:

• Being hit by moving object
• Body stressing
• Falls, slips and trips of a person

Since 2016 two people⁴ have died in work-related incidents:

1. Being hit by a person accidently
2. Vehicle incident

¹Source: Department of Treasury and Finance; ABS, Labour Force, Australia, Detailed Quarterly, Cat. No. 6291.0.55.003.

²Benefit costs reflected are a snap shot at time of publishing.

³Maximum weekly hours of work in accordance with Fair Work - 38 hours per week.

⁴Both fatalities occurred in Defence.