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Renewable energy outshines brown coal

Renewable energy generated more power than brown coal, gas or oil during Australia’s long hot summer. The 9,880 gigawatt-hours (GWh) from renewables during the summer months (1 December to 28...

Historical living: mining Coober Pedy #blog

Around 850km from Adelaide in South Australia’s outback sits the mining town of Coober Pedy. The fields of opal were discovered in 1913 and there were 70 individual opal fields, which produced more...