Robotic submarines are becoming central to future navies. They are driving projects like EDA’s SPHYDA to reduce acoustic noise through advanced modelling, stealth design, and hydrodynamic optimization for quieter, longer-endurance autonomous underwater vehicles.

Avoiding conflict often breeds resentment and stifles creativity. Leaders should normalize constructive disagreement by inviting challenges and engaging silent voices. This helps foster trust, collaboration, and better decisions through open, respectful dialogue.

Enshittified can be an offensive term. However, it is widely applied in the tech world to explain how the internet has transposed into a colossal surveillance apparatus capable of tracking our most private behaviours and producing powerless, compliant consumers.

Women are increasingly using anabolic steroids, driven by strength sports, social media, and peer influence; yet face unique health risks and stigma. Experts call for tailored education, online outreach, and nonjudgmental healthcare engagement.

Japan’s new stance on Taiwan signals it may act decisively, not just support. Australia, the author argues, must align planning, intelligence, and readiness with Japan and the US to strengthen collective deterrence in a more distributed Indo-Pacific.

Northern Australia is ready for growth, but rigid, short-term funding and centralised policy slow progress. Effective regional development requires flexible, sustained investment, tailored programs, and place-based approaches that align with local needs and ambition.

Taiwan faces constant Chinese pressure across the Strait, blending military threat with political coercion; sustaining stability requires resilient defence, whole-of-society preparedness, and carefully calibrated support from regional partners.

A new directed-energy system shows how fast-moving aerial threats can be countered with precise, low-cost strikes — offering a glimpse of future defensive tools shaped by rapid innovation. The Dragonfire test team emphasised pinpoint accuracy at long range.

The US Space Force and NRO plan a competitive, multi-award strategy to develop and field satellites that can track aircraft and drones, while balancing long-term goals and addressing congressional concerns over E-7 Wedgetail program continuation.

Exposure to violent events can unsettle entire communities—experts explain why distress is normal, how repeated media exposure intensifies it, and what practical steps help people regain a sense of safety and emotional balance.