Some Indo-Pacific nations are actively using strategic ambiguity—balancing major powers while avoiding firm alignments—to maximise autonomy, bargaining power and, manage local risks. Modern neutrality is pragmatic, not ideological, enabling investment without full political alignment.

The unemployment rate for young graduates in US is the highest it’s been for 12 years. Anyone considering undertaking university study should research graduation prospects, workplace skill transfer and potential job loss attributed to AI.

Carlos Ruiz, Sgt. Maj. of the US Marine Corps, discovered you don’t use a photo of one of America’s most decorated service members to make a point about uniform standards.

Guilt can be useful—or toxic. This article explores how to process regret without letting it dominate your identity, relationships, or choices. Letting go doesn’t mean forgetting—it means growing.

Breathing is closely linked to brain activity. Patterns are both unique and revealing—offering new possibilities for identifying individuals and detecting early signs of mental or physical health changes. Future health monitoring could include breath tracking.

Workplaces globally are stressed by factors such as declining birth rates, growing elderly populations and gender gaps in participation. One reform is to allocate leave specifically to fathers and partners for a more equal responsibility for care.

Hybrid-electric systems offer advantages including reduced fuel dependency, quieter operations, enhanced mobility, and the ability to generate power on the move—critical for future battlefield and disaster response scenarios in contested environments.

Australia’s subsea cables lack updated protections. The fragmented approach to digital infrastructure risks both economic opportunity and security—unified national leadership is needed to manage cables, data centres, and connectivity across all levels.

Perplexity is a relatively new AI which in addition to summarising and referencing content at different levels, can also ask questions about files, handle projects, create images and browse curated pages. Meta and Apple are actively competing to acquire it.

By the spring of 1945, Japan was on the retreat. In April that year, American troops landed on the beaches of Okinawa and claimed victory over Japan three months later—but at a cost.