2 in 3
Australian employees use AI at work
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Software doesn’t operate in isolation. Our research looks at the behaviours, infrastructure and wider changes shaping how technology is actually used across Australia.
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AI is changing how businesses operate, but the real opportunity lies beyond rapid adoption - in understanding where it creates value, where it introduces risk, and what it takes to make it production-ready.
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of Australian organisations use autonomous AI agents
$1tn
expected infrastructure investment from four major tech companies in 2026
100k
$AUD estimated to productionise a prototype built in 30 minutes
Articles
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.
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.
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.
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.
