As 2025 draws to a close, Australia faces a unique fracture of safety and trust. Dr Daniel Shaw offers a clinical roadmap for building a defiant architecture of hope.

People are falling in love with AI chatbots. We shouldn't judge them, but we should be critical of the product. We explore the psychology of AI partners and the real risk: the atrophy of our skills for messy, real-world human relationships.

AHPRA's new social media policy is meant to protect the public, but is it silencing the wrong people? We explore how vague rules create a "chilling effect" on registered professionals, leaving a void for online charlatans to fill with misinformation.

The new National Anti-Bullying Report is a critical first step, but it's not a solution. We offer an in-depth critical analysis of its three biggest weaknesses: the symbolic $10M budget, its similarity to existing-but-failing frameworks, and its failure to repair the trust gap.

The criminalisation of coercive control is a landmark legal shift. But what does it mean psychologically? We explore how coercive control works to dismantle a person's identity, the role of trauma bonding, and what this legal change means for Victoria and the rest of Australia.