Test a Queensland firefighter cancer claim against the fire service list
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the cancer and the years stated on the fire department page, using a firm-controlled tool, table that page's list and mark every eligibility rule the page does not state. Do not decide the presumption.
- What the lawyer must review
- Decide only the comparisons the fire department page allows.
- Do not treat the 2023 table of 12 cancers as the current list.
- Leave who is a firefighter open. The page does not define that class.
- Health and wage records stay in a firm-controlled tool. Apply ASCR r 9, APP 11, and the notifiable-breach test.
Rules that apply
The document starts from the task name. Change it if this piece of work is different.
The work product
Forum. Queensland, fire department presumptive cancer page, Act text not opened
Produce. A list comparison that flags every gap the page leaves open.
Have ready. Diagnosis naming the cancer; Years the person worked or volunteered as a firefighter, so far as known; Date of diagnosis.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: A firefighter has oesophageal cancer after 16 years. The note records 15 years on the fire department page and says the page does not state who is eligible or how the presumption is rebutted. The lawyer confirms the Act before any advice.
Stop and hand it back when
- The cancer is not on the page.
- The advice would pick 10 years or 15 years for ovarian cancer without showing both headings.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the cancer and the years stated on the fire department page, using a firm-controlled tool, table that page's list and mark every eligibility rule the page does not state. Do not decide the presumption. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Use the fire department period for the named cancer, and record a conflict where the same cancer appears twice.
- Do not replace the fire department page's 15 years for oesophageal cancer with 25 years. That figure is not on the fire department page.
- Do not say who is covered beyond the page's word firefighters.
- Tell the lawyer to open the current Act before any advice that the presumption applies.
Sources
- Queensland Fire Department: presumptive cancer legislation for firefighters · 2026-10-23
- Safe Work Australia 29th edition, table 4.10, firefighter presumptions · 2026-10-23
The fire department page says the scheme covers 23 types after the August 2024 amendments. Periods it states include asbestos-related malignant disease, covering mesothelioma, lung cancer, ovarian cancer and laryngeal cancer, 15 years; bladder 15; brain 5; breast 10; cervical 10; colorectal 15; kidney 15, and the page says the kidney also includes the ureters, bladder and urethra; leukaemia 5; liver 15; lung 15; mesothelioma 15; multiple myeloma 15; non-Hodgkins lymphoma 15; ovarian 10; oesophageal 15; pancreatic 10; penile 15; prostate 15; skin, described as melanoma and non-melanoma, 15; testicular 10; thyroid 10; ureter 15; uterine 10. Ovarian cancer is 15 years under the asbestos heading and 10 years under its own heading. Lung cancer and mesothelioma are likewise listed twice. Do not choose between those overlaps. The 2023 table is a comparison edition, not the August 2024 list. Sections 36B to 36E were not opened.
No generative-AI practice note of the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission or the Industrial Court was opened. Apply the forum's current direction before a document is lodged.
If health or wage records leave the firm-controlled tool, decide whether a Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) breach is notifiable.