The New Joneses, Season 4
Bunjil Place Outdoor Screen
June 2026 – January 2027
Over the next six month Season 4 of The New Joneses will be showing on the Bunjil Place Outdoor Screen.
The New Joneses share simple stuff we can all do for the health of our people, planet + pockets. For 10 years, their awarded TINY HOUSE toured Australia showing how to lighten our footprints + have a positive impact with some simple switches to our daily lives.
Join Neighbours’ Ryan Moloney, (aka “Toadie”) in all-new Season 4 The New Joneses “Good Neighbours”, as he goes shotgun and hits the road, to find out “what makes a good neighbour?” From the bush to the beach, Ryan meets farmers, sports clubs, communities and coal miners welcoming wind and solar energy to their towns. Watch free at www.thenewjoneses.com
With his family, off-grid-home and bee-hive, Ryan’s living his best life. But he wants to know, what’s powering his kids’ future? What’s going to keep their lights on? With Australia’s energy grid already 40% powered by renewables, Ryan learns farms and transmission lines, sheep and wind turbines can go together like Scott and Charlene.
EPISODE 32 - Good Neighbours: "Offshore Wind. Onshore Opportunities" Gippsland VIC
Offshore Wind. Onshore Opportunities
Gunaikurnai Country (Gippsland, VIC)
Tony Wolfe + Darren McCubbin are two Gippsland locals, amped about the jobs, economic + community benefits offshore wind is already bringing to their region.
Proud of its coal past, the La Trobe Valley is gearing up for its exciting renewables future.
Predicted to power around 1.2 million homes, Star of the South, (Australia's most advanced offshore wind project), has the potential to supply up to 20% of Victoria's electricity needs.
Just one rotation of these turbines can power a home for about a day and a half!
Beyond electricity, offshore wind turbines can create artificial reefs, boost fishing stocks and enhance marine life.
Tony says there's plenty of evidence showing we can make new infrastructure “nature positive” if we choose to.
Hear why Tony and Darren see Offshore wind as Gippsland's once-in-a-generation golden-opportunity to build a new workforce, create stable jobs and keep kids working and thriving in the region.
EPISODE 33 - Good Neighbours: “Farms, Turbines + Towns” Crookwell NSW
“Farms, Turbines + Towns”
Gundungurra Country, (Crookwell, NSW)
Dimity Taylor lives with her family less than 2 km from the Gullen Range Wind Farm.
Dimity's neighbour isn't Mrs Mangle—it's a wind farm.
Dimity loves to watch the turbines at sundown, relaxing with her family, enjoying the view.
Powering more than 70,000 homes, the wind farm is also a cherished part of the community who are reaping the benefits now.
Showing up as a really good neighbour, grants from the wind farm support local favorites, like the pony club, Crookwell Devils Junior Rugby League and community hall, where bookclubs and a community space bring people together.
As a physio and health worker, she has no worries living near a wind farm.
According to Dimity, nor do the sheep, the horse or the dog mind living near the turbines.
While Dimity is deeply concerned about the health impacts of climate change, she says the wind turbines calm her, knowing they are creating a safer, more secure, healthier + affordable renewable energy future for her kids and everyone in the region.
EPISODE 34 - Good Neighbours: "Communities + Solar Farms" Goulburn NSW
Good Neighbours: Goulburn, NSW Communities + Solar Farms
Gundungurra and Ngunawal Country (Goulburn, NSW)
Ed Suttle is an Angus beef cattle farmer.
Ed's also a driving force behind one of Australia's largest community-owned solar farms.
In a region where the elected representatives oppose renewable energy (wind and sun), Ed and his neighbours took matters into their own hands.
They got their community on board to fund their very own solar powered future.
Ed wells up as he recounts the incredible journey of a country town coming together to create lasting change, power their community, and promote clean energy with a 100% ethical investment.
See a community coming together to source their power from the sun, in Goulburn, NSW.
Once known for the Big Merino, Goulburn is on its way to being known for the Big Renewable!
EPISODE 35 - Good Neighbours: “Whales, Jobs + Offshore Wind” Wollongong NSW.
“Whales, Jobs + Offshore Wind”
Dharawal Country (Port Kembla, Woolongong)
Meet Darryl + Ali, Illawarra locals welcoming offshore wind to "The Gong”.
An engineer and life-time coal worker, Darryl is excited about the jobs + opportunities offshore wind and green steel at Port Kembla will provide for local workers + industries.
In a region built on heavy industry, Darryl sees offshore wind as the Illawarra’s golden ticket to a clean, healthy, thriving community + economy.
Heavy industry (like the steel works) needs to be powered by heavy industry, like offshore wind.
By transforming to green steel powered by offshore renewables, Port Kembla steel works can continue providing jobs + supporting the local economy.
Having seen community devastation when coal mines shut, workers lose jobs + families break apart, Darryl says the offshore wind industry is essential to provide the jobs needed for the economic survival and prosperity of the Illawarra.
Next up, Ali, a local water woman + mum. Ali represents the large part of her community wanting offshore wind in Wollongong.
Ali wants her community to come together over the huge potential of offshore wind in the Illawarra, as a lifeline for their community's future.
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