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More than four million Bupa customers can continue to use Healthscope hospitals with no gap fee after the end of a months-long standoff. But not everyone is so lucky.

Meanwhile, Bensons Property Group, which collapsed into administration over Christmas, may have been insolvent as early as July 2023, a new report has found.

And find out why fast-food billionaire Jack Cowin remains convinced more Australians will start buying plant-based meat even as companies spruiking soy sausages are going down like flies all around him.

Perry Williams
Business editor
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