On a foggy winter morning in Talbingo, in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains, 13 women skip into the local trading post. It is the only shop open year-round; lately, it doubles as something far more important. Talbingo was built in the early 1960s to house workers on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme. Decades later, Snowy 2.0 was developed as a major pumped-hydro expansion of the existing system. These days it is better known for water …
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