Vikas Thakur / / 6 min readWestern Australia's Radiological Council replaced its "Superficial Cosmetic" laser category with "Lasers - Non-Ablative Cosmetic" in December 2025, and mandatory medical engagement now applies to every standalone cosmetic laser clinic in the state. Perth and Rockingham clinics advertising laser treatments should check their service pages match what their actual WA licence permits.
Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readAI Overviews cut the top-ranking Google result's click-through rate by 34.5% within a year of their US rollout, according to a 300,000-keyword Ahrefs study. Pew Research separately found people click a normal search result only 8% of the time when an AI summary appears, against 15% without one. Here is the underlying click data, month by month, with sources.
Vikas Thakur / / 13 min readNSW Health confirmed the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2026 commences 5 November 2026, 77 days from this article's publish date. Its cosmetic medicine section pushes clinics toward one clinical record a prescriber can open, not a booking widget, a CRM and a paper file working alone.
Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readA 2022 amendment to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law lifted the maximum testimonial-breach penalty twelvefold, to $60,000 for an individual and $120,000 for a body corporate. AHPRA's cosmetic procedure guidelines, effective 2 September 2025, then tightened the rule further for social media influencers.
Vikas Thakur / / 12 min readIn June 2026 the OAIC found two Australian health service providers breached the Privacy Act by running tracking pixels without valid consent. A cosmetic clinic or cosmetic dental practice runs the same pixels on the same kind of pages, so the same rules apply.
Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readThe TGA issued 5 infringement notices totalling $19,800 to a Victorian nurse and a Victorian individual on 17 June 2026 over unapproved injectables never listed on the ARTG. The import case is not a website problem on its own, but the same enforcement priority pulls in whatever a clinic site says about product sourcing.