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You’ve heard me talk about the rebuild. This is the whole method, in order, in one place — nine short segments and nine worksheets.
I’ve been answering the same question since June: what actually changes in October? It takes forty minutes on a call, and I end up drawing the same thing on the same whiteboard every time.
So I built it once, properly — nine short segments, the method in the order I actually use it, and the worksheets I fill in when I do this work with a client.
The part almost everyone has wrong isn’t the increase. It’s what happens to the people already on your team. That’s the next thing on this page.
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3 min 41 — what changed, and why the method matters more than the rate table.
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Most owners now know the dates: the first stage is dated 1 October 2026, with four more stages behind it out to 2030, stacking on top of the annual wage review rather than being absorbed by it.
What far fewer have is the second test.
Anyone classified under this award on 30 September 2026 is entitled to the higher of two rates — the new band rate they translate into, or the minimum their old classification carried. Whichever is higher is the lawful minimum for that person.
It is a comparison, and it has to be run one person at a time. Which is why a calculator that shows you a new band rate has answered a question you didn’t ask: for someone already on your team, the lawful minimum can sit materially above it.
REBUILD teaches you how that comparison works and exactly what you need in front of you to run it on your own people. Which is the only way it can be run — the answer is in your records, not in anyone’s course, and a course claiming otherwise is selling something it can’t deliver.
Every clinic gets one clean moment to reset its classifications on purpose. It has a date on it.
Nine segments, three modules
Eight to nine minutes each, so a module fits in a lunch break. Each segment builds its model on screen as the explanation runs, and each one has a one-page worksheet that asks you to record a fact you already have — a date, a name, what a document actually says.
The whole thing
What it’s scoped to
REBUILD covers the October reclassification — the one-off translation every clinic has to do before the new structure starts. That is a finite piece of work with a date on it, and this is the method for doing it. It is not a subscription, it is not a rates service, and it does not undertake to track the award for you afterwards.
This is the method the firm runs inside paid engagements, taught in full. It is $197 because the alternative is teaching it one call at a time.
Before you get access you’ll be asked to read and sign a short enrolment acceptance — that REBUILD is education, not advice about your clinic.
Optional at checkout
REBUILD Calculators — $100. The working tools that sit alongside the method. A tick-box on the checkout page; skip it and nothing changes about the course.
Sit down with your team list, your contracts and your dates, and establish where each person lands under the new structure — with the reasoning written down while it is still contemporaneous. Most of you will run it in an afternoon and won’t need to call me about it, which is the point of selling a method rather than an engagement.
Some of you will get three people in and hit one that isn’t standard — a career break, an overseas qualification, a title that was generous rather than accurate. You’ll know exactly what you’re looking at and which question to ask, which is worth a great deal more than guessing. If you’d then rather have someone work through the hard ones with you, that’s a much shorter conversation once you understand the machinery.
What no course can do is make the call for a named person on your team. That answer lives in your records, and nothing that hasn’t read them can produce it — so REBUILD teaches you to read them properly. Finishing it doesn’t make your clinic compliant and isn’t evidence that it is; nothing sold as a course could be.
And if you’d rather wait for the final figures: you’ll be waiting for a republication whose date isn’t published. The figures change. The list of people, dates and documents you need in front of you does not.
Because there isn’t a final one. The Commission published the new rates in 2025 dollars and has said it will republish them with the 2026 annual wage review folded in. A course built on interim figures needs re-recording the day that lands.
The method doesn’t have that problem — establish the classification, establish the anchor date, run the higher-of comparison. Those steps hold whatever the numbers turn out to be, which is exactly why the reclassification can be done before the final figures exist. When they publish, you apply them to a classification you have already established and evidenced.
It’s the classification method the firm runs inside paid engagements, taught in full. What it isn’t is the engagement: advisory work looks at your actual contracts, payroll and people and produces determinations for named individuals. REBUILD never sees any of that and never makes a determination about a person.
No. Culture Of One is a business advisory firm, not a law firm and not a workplace-relations practice. REBUILD is general information about how the award works — it doesn’t take account of your clinic, your contracts or any individual’s circumstances, because it never sees them. The enrolment acceptance you sign before access says exactly that.
What it does is show you how to read your own — so you walk into the conversation with your accountant or your HR adviser holding a list instead of a question.
Between now and the first stage there is one moment where a clinic can look at every classification it holds, work out what the evidence actually supports, and write the reasoning down while it is still contemporaneous. Reasoning recorded at the time is a position. The same reasoning reconstructed two years later is a reconstruction, and everybody involved can tell the difference.
That moment doesn’t require final rates. It requires a list, some dates, and a method for reading them.
Education, not advice. REBUILD is general information about the Health Professionals and Support Services Award (MA000027). It is not legal, accounting or workplace-relations advice, it does not take account of any particular clinic or person, and completing it is not a compliance determination and is not evidence that anyone is being paid correctly. Before you change anyone’s classification or pay, and before you act on a shortfall you think you have found, get advice on your own circumstances from someone who can look at your contracts and your pay records.
Rates are not final. The Fair Work Commission has published the new rates in 2025 dollars and has said it will republish them with the 2026 annual wage review folded in. Wherever a figure appears in the course or in any tool supplied with it, treat it as an estimate that moves on republication and again after each later annual wage review.
Nothing on this page limits any right you have under the Australian Consumer Law.