Growing climate shocks across the region highlight how resilience must link local readiness with national planning—ensuring communities can withstand disruption while keeping wider risks from escalating. Civil emergencies reveal gaps in national resilience.

With humanoid robots, an era is developing whereby labour is now owned, not employed. Robots offer maximum output at minimum cost, with maximum control and minimum friction. Broader ethical and social impacts need to be considered.

Undersea cables face growing physical and cyber threats. Australia is assessing risks and capabilities to safeguard these links—vital to national stability and daily life—as cyber operations become fully active and central to modern security.

Australia imports far more creative content than it exports. Stronger support, clearer strategy and a steady push into global markets could lift local creators and strengthen national influence—small steps now could unlock major long-term gains.

The article argues that Australia must build a self-reliant defence industry by 2035, mandating minimum SME participation and cutting red tape to reduce dependency on foreign suppliers and strengthen national security and economic resilience.

The aircraft's record for the longest air-to-air intercept using an AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) radar-guided missile used for both air-to-air and surface-to-air combat demonstrates extended time-of-flight and enhanced lethality for fifth-generation fighters.

AI is increasing used for everyday information and advice. Professionals caution its use for financial advice as AI doesn’t consider your circumstances. It is also not uncommon for AI models to hallucinate, or invent, information.

The UK is developing the first mobile quantum-powered MEG brain scanner to detect blast-related neurological changes in real time, enhancing troop safety, guiding return-to-duty decisions, and advancing research on long-term brain health risks.

The investment will advance collaborative air capabilities and transition the MQ-28A Ghost Bat into a fully-operational warfighting asset, as well as strengthen sovereign defence industry leadership in autonomous air combat systems.

Cost-driven threats keep outpacing expensive countermeasures — meaning success depends on practical training, simple defences, and reusable systems that can absorb rapid shifts in technology and tactics without exhausting finite resources. Drones mirror earlier cost-asymmetric roadside bombs.