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5 min read · Oct 20, 2026 · Rich Atkinson

Specialist fees will now publish by default: inside the Medical Costs Finder overhaul

Seven years of voluntary fee disclosure produced 106 specialists out of 6,300. From September 2026, Australia's Medical Costs Finder publishes specialist fees from Medicare and insurer billing data by default. What it shows, and what the law leaves unsettled.

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7 min read · Oct 19, 2026 · Rich Atkinson

Not reaching Vision Zero costs Australia $12.6 billion a year

Vulnerable road user deaths and injuries cost Australia a modelled $12.6 billion a year: 460 lives, 36,000 hospital admissions, $1.66 billion in healthcare. The official count prices half of it, because it counts from police files.

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9 min read · Oct 16, 2026 · Rich Atkinson, Executive Director

Chemical exposure and biomonitoring: what other developed nations measure that Australia does not

Across five kinds of exposure, peer nations run named, ongoing national measurement programs: chemicals in people, indoor air, microplastics, food chemicals, and drinking water byproducts. Australia runs none that match. The measurement gap, not the method, is what blocks the question.

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6 min read · Oct 13, 2026 · Rich Atkinson

Big business pockets $17 billion a year from pesticides that cost 430 Australian lives and $5.3 billion in disease and death.

Australia's pesticide trade adds A$17 billion a year to farm production. A model built on published epidemiology puts the harm at A$5.3 billion a year and about 430 deaths, and the industry pays none of it. The fix is a national biomonitoring program the Senate has already recommended.

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4 min read · Oct 12, 2026 · Rich Atkinson

Australia has the world's highest cancer rates and some of the world's loosest pesticide rules

Australia's pesticide residue testing and approvals lag the EU's, and no national survey measures what ends up in people. Three reforms, in order of urgency.

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5 min read · Sep 28, 2026

NAB outage

NAB's outage took down six services at once. The disclosure data shows why that's the pattern to watch.

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5 min read · Sep 28, 2026

Half of privately insured Australians are closer to cancelling than funds think

Private health insurers applied a 4.41% premium rise this year, the largest since 2017, adding about $132 a year for the average policyholder. Survey data says 51.7% of policyholders would cancel over a $50 monthly rise, and Millennials are the generation most ready to go.

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5 min read · Sep 28, 2026

Business survival

Nearly a million Australian businesses have closed in four tears. The growth numbers are hiding it.

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5 min read · Sep 01, 2026 · Nick Simpson, Head of UX

Introducing Airteam rebranded: the story behind our new brand identity.

Our new brand is an updated reflection of who we are, 10 years on.

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