Emerging signals and possible futures.

More Australians are working two jobs to keep up with prices. Our cars and government systems are proving easy to break into, by people and by AI. Private investments, from property loans to AI data centres, are turning out to be worth less than their managers said. New data centre rules come too late for people already living next door, and one of the companies the rules cover saw them before the public did. And a record El Niño is heading our way with no national heat plan in place. In each case, the things we rely on have changed faster than the protections around them.