Bill shock means home batteries make financial sense, despite expense
A quarter of a million households now have home batteries to store the electricity their rooftop solar generates and help them avoid sky-high power bills.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Sydney uni student trolled for being Bondi Junction killer in a terrible case of mistaken identity
The Seven Network apologised for broadcasting the misinformation after the 20-year-old hit out at those who “mindlessly” propagated the claims.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Kristy worked on flood rescue all night. When she got home her town was covered in coal
Coal mines in the Illawarra struggled with last weekend’s deluge, sending coal deposits into residential areas and the Royal National Park where the platypus live.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Fashion retail
How a dress rented 53 times saved the equivalent of 159 trees
There’s a new trend in fashion: sustainability, with many shoppers no longer trying before they buy, merely renting.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
After a balmy Easter, here comes the rain again
March was abnormally wet and warm for Australia overall, but much drier than usual in the southeastern states.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Extreme weather
‘Opportunistic’ fraud and scams target disasters in a warming world
Financial criminals are exploiting Australia’s worsening climate disasters and extreme weather events, including fires, floods and cyclones.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
How Sydneysiders could save $730 a year by ditching gas
NSW residents could save $1.1 billion and the equivalent of 1 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions a year by swapping gas for electricity.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
How humans are taking whale food and feeding it to cats and dogs
“It’s like a dystopian, post-apocalyptic David Attenborough documentary where you have penguins swimming on one side and a massive trawler on the other.”
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Endangered species
Conservationists to clash with government at koala summit
Friday’s koala summit is set for a showdown between conservationists and the government over delays in creating the Great Koala National Park and the intensification of logging within the proposed boundaries.
- by Nick O'Malley and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘Words can’t describe’: Puggle magic in Royal National Park after 50 years
Ten platypuses were released into Australia’s oldest national park, just south of Sydney, last May. The animals are thriving and at least one puggle was born last spring.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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NSW Police misconduct
Dozens of children strip-searched by police over summer
NSW Police strip-searched children, including 12 and 13-year-olds, in the four months after the Minns government promised to review the practice, an FOI request has revealed.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons