I’m writing this in the first week of January 2022, but it may as well be 2020 or 2021. It feels as though relatively little has changed two years after the covid-19 pandemic turned the world upside down. Sure, we’ve got vaccines now and lots of people have gotten them, but the virus seems to […]
More and more people are moving from Australia’s capital cities to regional towns than the other way around. The Movers Index pins that number at nearly 30% more, and up from 26% in the previous comparable period. They’re calling it Tree Change.
What is tree change? And what’s happening in regional migration Australia?
Water allocations in Australia are tightening. Energy costs are rising. And every year, around half of stored on-farm water may never reach productive use due to evaporation. (CRDC/NEESTI data)
But there’s a niche, energy-generating technology that can both save the dam and give it a second function:
Floating solar panels or floating solar arrays.
Rolling greens and cattle under clear blue skies. The rhythm of mustering sheep, as you wait for rain. Sounds almost romantic, doesn’t it?
Only, the reality of running a grazing property, especially marginal, low-performing country, is anything but.
And it’s because of rain. Or the unrelenting absence of it, from one dry season to the next.
Australia’s climate extremes mean seasons of low yield due to drought literally come with the territory. When harsh, dry cycles stretch on longer than the better ones, not even an excellent yield is enough to make up for the bad.
Not when you have a family to feed. Not when you have livestock and pasture to care for continuously.
Then you hear about a farm owner signing a solar farm lease agreement with developers. That’s stable income, no matter the weather.
50 million solar panels are about to enter their end-of-life in Australia.
They’re calling it a “solar panel recycling time bomb.”
The term was coined to describe a waste problem long since predicted: there isn’t enough recycling capacity for all the AU solar panels about to be decommissioned by 2030.
Australian households were among the first adopters of rooftop solar. In the world. 1 in every 3 homes. With solar rooftop design spanning 25 to 30 years, most panels that went up from 2005 to 2010 are now entering retirement.
In a different part of the world, nobody would think twice about it. But when that means one million tonnes of solar PVs have nowhere to go in one of the world’s largest landmasses, it becomes a national-scale liability.
There’s barely an industry to catch it. No nationwide system. No large-scale solution.
Yet.
Here’s what’s inside this massive environmental burden, and where the business opening is, before larger players and regulation crowd it out.
Sheep grazing and utility-scale solar generation. Sounds like they don’t belong in the same sentence. They do now.
Australia is pioneering a new type of operation that makes farms more than farms: the “agrivoltaics hub.” Also called the agrisolar hub.
A cotton farm is building a facility that produces green hydrogen and ammonia using solar power. Regional farms are being transformed into integrated energy producers.
It’s land use for farming and solar generation simultaneously. It’s landowners building these hubs on their own land to power themselves. What follows is a self-powered farm and a supply chain that’s independent of overseas logistics chains.
But what does it actually take to build and run a hybrid operation?
What does the back-office infrastructure look like when a farm becomes a regulated energy and chemical producer?
What are the best Mother’s Day gifts for mom?
When no gift can truly suffice for all they do and are, what gift do you give stay at home work from home moms, mompreneurs, single moms, and working moms for a lifetime of love, tenderness, and sacrifice no one could ever repay?
You’ve seen Tom Brady’s Mother’s Day Tribute. Now, it’s your turn.
Whether you’re in Sydney, New York, or LA, this Mother’s Day gift guide 2026 (which also serves as a guide for last-minute gift ideas) for the mom in your life who deserves nothing less than the world.
Queensland is 50,000 workers short as of early 2026.
When the third most populous state in Australia, home to a population of 5.5 million, is unable to fill the Queensland construction worker shortage, the problem becomes less a statistic and more a matter of urgency.
It’s not just construction workers either.
Key roles like Estimators, CAD Designers and Technicians, BIM Modellers, Accounts and Payroll Specialists, and Administrative Support are in the mix, too, among many others.
Ready to crack those fingers and scour through the list of the best no code app development platforms? The ones Australian businesses are lunging toward, this not-so-new tech phenomenon that keeps quietly reshaping how small teams build software?
Here’s a breakdown of the 11 best platforms worth your money in 2026, grouped by what they help you build. The tool is half the job, though. Someone still has to run it. More on that as you read on.
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