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Atlassian enters 10-year solar energy deal with community co-op to power Sydney HQ A solar farm owned by a group of community investors has secured a 10-year deal with one of Australia’s biggest technology companies to help power its headquarters,Goulburn Community Energy Co-operativeElectricity generated by the project in NSW’s Southern Tablelands will help to meet the renewable energy needs of the tech firm’s 39-storey Sydney base, currently in construction near Central station, when it opens in 2028.
The announcement comes amid heated debate over whether technology companies should be required to invest in renewable energy generation to meet growing demands from data centres and artificial intelligence operations in Australia. The solar and battery farm, located on 2.2 hectares of industrial land in Goulburn, features 2,300 solar panels and a four megawatt-hour battery.
Owned by a group of about 288 local investors, who contributed a minimum of $400, the farm connected to the electricity grid in March 2026, 12 years after it was proposed. AndrewOur active volunteers and investor community worked patiently and diligently across a number of years to see this project come to fruition. To have a blue-chip Australian company like Atlassian come on board as a commercial partner is a huge vote of confidence in what we have built.
Online gaming services are failing to take enough action to prevent children being exposed to harmful content, a new report from theIn a report published today, the online safety watchdog found measures adopted by gaming providers were not up to standard and varied in quality between platforms. Platforms with the dominant purpose of gaming are not covered under Australia’s under-16s social media ban but are subject to the eSafety Commissioner’s information gathering notices.
, Roblox, Minecraft and Valve’s Steam – found some positive signs but overall determined “disparities and shortcomings”. Among them, examples of some platforms relying on age self-declaration resulting in children being able to easily access third-party content lacking sufficient content moderation as well as a limited number of human moderators to respond to harmful content.
While we have seen some safety improvements as a result of sustained regulatory pressure, including the recent court-enforceable undertakings we accepted from Roblox, there is still significant work to be done across the board to prevent serious harms in online gaming to children.
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