Win and Jim Arnold live in a tropical paradise. The Queensland government's Pioneer-Burdekin Pumped Hydro project would drown most of their property. Grattan Institute energy and climate change director Tony Wood said the production of hydro-electricity had "been around for many, many decades", with the Snowy Mountain Hydro Scheme one of the country's most prominent. Wivenhoe Hydro Power Station west …
In the middle of the southern Queensland bush, a man in a high-vis orange shirt looks starkly out of place as he slowly pushes a strange four-wheeled machine across the uneven, scrubby landscape. The geospatial technician and a team of conservationists are mapping the burrows of one of the world's most critically endangered animals — the northern hairy-nosed wombat. Charting …