Thinking and insights from our team.

What the 2026 federal and Queensland budgets mean for aged care, the NDIS, Foundational Supports, family support, health and early learning.

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.

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.

Social impacts, evidence-based solutions, and pathways to change.

Governance in 2026 doesn’t just need better documents. It needs more honest rooms.

If a wellbeing economy is embraced, we have the most to gain. And if it isn’t, we have the most to lose.

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.