Thursday,
26 December 2024
Save the possums: Turn those lights off!

WHEN what was then called New Parliament House opened in 1988 amid controversy over its design and blowout cost, a simple design flaw became almost immediately obvious:

Bogong moths LOVE light. And they can crawl through the tiniest of gaps.

The House was built smack-bang in the middle of their migratory route from the plains of Queensland and New South Wales to the Victorian High Country.

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