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Matthew Benns
Matthew BennsEditor-at-Large

Matthew Benns is Editor-at-Large at The Daily Telegraph. He is a career journalist from Fleet Street to Sydney and has covered stories all over the world, tracking tigers in the Russian Far East to finding Elvis Presley’s first girlfriend in Biloxi, Mississippi.

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(FILES) This photograph taken on February 13, 2023 shows wind turbines in a wind farm in Fuendejalon, with the Moncayo mount in background, Zaragoza province, northern Spain. Boosted by the rise of artificial intelligence, data centre projects are multiplying in Aragon, a Spanish region at the forefront of renewable energies leading to a boom encouraged by the authorities, who are hoping for major economic spin-offs. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)

Giant wind, solar farms proposed for NSW town

A dramatic expansion of controversial renewable energy zones into country NSW has been met with outrage from the communities who will see high voltage transmission lines snaking across their land.

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Sydney's new Metro (main picture) and top right is a gamechanger for the city, while melbourne languishes with plans for an airport rail link scuttled (bottom right), Pictures: News Corp

Sydney Metro shows Melbourne the way

It’s a tale of two cities – Sydney brightly celebrating an economic boom on the back of a new $21 billion Metro, while over the border the Bleak City remains stalled amid the half-finished plans for an unbuilt airport line.

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