Australia news live: eSafety warns online gaming can cause ‘serious harms’ to children; Atlassian to power solar farm

Australia news live: eSafety warns online gaming can cause ‘serious harms’ to children; Atlassian to power solar farm

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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,Australian Associated Press reports.

Atlassian announced its virtual power purchase agreement with the Goulburn Community Energy Co-operative on Friday, in a deal that will fund almost 70% of the project’s output over the next decade.

Our 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.

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. Continue reading...

Read the full story at theguardian.com

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