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May 5, 2026
Insight
The AI turn in healthcare: Imaging, ambient scribes, and the trust question we can’t skip
AI is no longer hypothetical in Australian healthcare. It is already in radiology reading rooms and GP consulting rooms. The question is no longer whether it will reshape services — but whether the people who use those services have any meaningful hand in shaping it.
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May 5, 2026
News
Beyond the silos: what it will take to deliver care more efficiently
The Productivity Commission’s 2025 inquiry frames the care economy’s challenge as fragmentation. Breaking it will require prevention, collaborative commissioning, and workforce reform — and the political nerve to connect them.
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May 5, 2026
Insight
The housing crisis and homelessness in Australia
Social impacts, evidence-based solutions, and pathways to change.
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May 5, 2026
Insight
We keep talking about trust, but are we creating the conditions for it?
Governance in 2026 doesn’t just need better documents. It needs more honest rooms.
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May 4, 2026
News
The economy that rural Australia actually needs
If a wellbeing economy is embraced, we have the most to gain. And if it isn’t, we have the most to lose.
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April 5, 2026
Insight
When a wind turbine becomes a dividing line: Social impact, rural communities, and the promise of co-design
Queensland’s new legislation is a floor, not a ceiling. What fills that floor will determine whether communities experience the energy transition as progress or as imposition.
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