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Wise words on wind energy

June 22, 2016
Izzie Pope took the stage after the premier, the minister, the deputy mayor and the chief operating officer. No disrespect to the heavy hitters, but it was the Year 12 student who delivered a beautifully considered speech to the hundreds in attendance at the Ararat Wind Farm Bring on the Blades celebration. A sound bite: “When the 46th anniversary of Earth Day was celebrated globally this year, Generation Z looked on in mild confusion, because we don’t need a special day for considering our environmental impact … every day is a day for sustainable living.”
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Ararat Wind Farm: bring on the blades!

June 22, 2016
The official ground-breaking for Ararat Wind Farm was only in November 2015, but construction is in full swing at the site, which stretches across prime wind positions atop Victoria’s Great Dividing Range and is set to be Australia’s third-largest wind farm, 180km north-west of Melbourne .
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Turbine blade puts fresh spin on renewable energy

June 22, 2016
When Victoria’s Labor Premier Daniel Andrews this week signed his name on the first GE wind-turbine blade to arrive for the Ararat Wind Farm, he also wrote on the gleaming fibreglass surface his government’s brand-new pledge to the Victorian people—to have the state running on 25% renewable energy by the year 2020, and to increase that to 40% renewable energy by the year 2025!
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Why you need defence-in-depth: a lexicon of cybersecurity

June 10, 2016
“The industrial sector has become a prime target for cyber attacks. Whether through malicious outsider intent or accidental insider actions, critical infrastructure is at risk of infiltration, infection, and disruption,” says Adrian Marziano, ANZ Enterprise Account Manager for GE Oil & Gas.
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Rugby league’s superheroes inspiring PNG kids to be healthy

June 07, 2016
The devotion Papua New Guineans have for rugby league is almost religious. A new partnership between the NRL and GE is channelling that love for sport into a Wellbeing Program to teach schoolchildren how to make healthy lifestyle choices.
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Inside the mind of a cybersecurity boss

June 01, 2016
As our world grows ever more connected, with data streaming in all directions from tiny devices and massive machines, the security of the information and the machines being controlled via this connectivity is a growing concern. GE’s Industrial Internet is built on data that connects some $1 trillion of its customers’ assets around the globe. The company’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Tim McKnight has spent more than two decades specialising in cybersecurity for industry and government, including with the FBI.
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Freeze! One man instantly solves the world’s dirtiest water problem

May 26, 2016
Ahilan Raman, director and lone ranger at Australian company Clean Energy and Water Technologies, answered the GE-Statoil Open Innovation Challenge to reduce freshwater use in shale oil development, because he was driven to “contribute to a solution”.
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Aussie “monsters” scoop international grant for knee-pain research

May 22, 2016
Professional basketballers and weekend warriors are hooping for joy as researchers accelerate investigations into one of the sport’s most persistent and debilitating injuries—jumper’s knee, also known as patellar tendinopathy.
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Daintree national spark: GE’s Australian acquisition

May 18, 2016
In April this year, Current, powered by GE, a startup taking innovative, agile approaches to streamlining energy solutions for customers, acquired Australian-founded Daintree Networks for $100 million.
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Sit up, Australian STEM students! This contest needs you.

May 16, 2016
In science, maths and engineering faculties of universities around the world, students are beavering away, solving the unsolvable. Their mission: transform the unimpossible into the possible.
GE’s inaugural Unimpossible Missions: The University Edition is on.
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