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Australian logistics titan launches five new Volvo electric trucks
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:58:37 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://thedriven.io/2026/02/17/australian-logistics-titan-launches-five-new-volvo-electric-trucks/>
"Melbourne headquartered logistics heavyweight Toll Group announced last week
that it had launched five new Volvo electric trucks in partnership with Asahi
Beverages which will operate across metropolitan Perth.
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55,000 extra social housing homes are being built. But a new study shows that boom still falls short
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:39:50 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://theconversation.com/55-000-extra-social-housing-homes-are-being-built-but-a-new-study-shows-that-boom-still-falls-short-275925>
"Thanks to an unprecedented lift in public funding in the 2020s, an extra
55,000 new, good quality homes around Australia will be available to people on
the lowest incomes by 2030. That’s almost triple the increase of 20,000 homes
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How Queensland coal plant waste is helping to build a (concrete) bridge to renewables
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:39:01 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://reneweconomy.com.au/how-queensland-coal-plant-waste-is-helping-to-build-a-concrete-bridge-to-renewables/>
"Queensland government-owned generation company CS Energy is using coal plant
byproducts to, quite literally, build a bridge between its traditional fossil
fuelled power stations and its new renewable energy assets.
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Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:37:45 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://theconversation.com/trumps-epa-decides-climate-change-doesnt-endanger-public-health-the-evidence-says-otherwise-275619>
"The Trump administration took a major step in its efforts to unravel America’s
climate policies on Feb. 12, 2026, when it moved to rescind the 2009
endangerment finding – a formal determination that six greenhouse gases that
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‘What’s more important, the electricity or food?’: extreme heat is driving up power bills in central Australia
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:36:44 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/15/extreme-heat-driving-up-power-bills-central-australia-prepaid-electricity-northern-territory>
"Since the start of summer, Vanessa Napaltjari Davis and her grandchildren have
sweltered in their two-bedroom home. Temperatures in the southern half of the
Northern Territory have been well above average and the electricity running
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Trump’s new-look EPA: The Environmental Pollution Agency
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:35:08 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://reneweconomy.com.au/trumps-new-look-epa-the-environmental-pollution-agency/>
"Most people would agree that characterising the Trump Presidency as
consequential, eventful, or chaotic would be an understatement. Not a day
passes without a new announcement, an unexpected policy or a reversal of the
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Pizza Hut feasts and improvised altars: lunar new year in Australia’s small town Chinese restaurants
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:02:29 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/16/pizza-hut-feasts-and-improvised-altars-lunar-new-year-in-australias-small-town-chinese-restaurants>
"Two things are certain at Chinese restaurants in Australian country towns:
you’ll find lemon chicken on the menu and the restaurant is open almost every
day.
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Play reduces stress and lifts wellbeing – and adults benefit as much as children do
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:01:04 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://theconversation.com/play-reduces-stress-and-lifts-wellbeing-and-adults-benefit-as-much-as-children-do-264767>
"Somewhere along the way to adulthood, time to play fades away. We tend to
trade silliness and imagination for seriousness and busyness.
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Scientists to track 10,000 moths across Australia, using little more than eyelash glue and confetti-like tags
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:00:03 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/16/scientists-to-track-10000-moths-across-australia-using-little-more-than-eyelash-glue-and-confetti-like-tags>
"Researchers and citizen scientists will, for the first time, tag and track
10,000 bogong moths as they travel hundreds of kilometres from the Australian
Alps to breeding grounds across the country’s south-east.
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Want to boost uptake of battery EVs? Subsidise chargers at home and work – not the vehicles
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:58:58 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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