to push for the location as the ideal site for Australia's new capital city. He was quoted as saying "cold climates have produced the greatest geniuses". Since then, much has been made of the ...

Millions of residents along Australia’s eastern coast are bracing for the arrival of a very slow-moving storm, the most southerly tropical cyclone to threaten the region in more than 50 years.

Australia is a fossil fuel giant, yet its capital is a global clean energy pioneer. As coal and gas investment was banished in favor of wind and solar, cheaper electricity bills followed.