Solar farming

[Lilith7]

If done right, it has huge potential.
You can still farm stock around the solar panels if enough spacing is provided, they also give the animals shade, one downside would be the inability to make hay from the area i guess, but its a win win if you can still use the land for farming.
NZ doesnt have as much wasteland as some countries, but see what China is doing in their desert, they are building huge solar farms there which I believe are already the worlds biggest, was just watching a video about this yesterday. Its quite impressive what China is able to do.
Australia would lend very well to solar in their outback and they have quite an energy crisis on their hands, very reliant on coal. There is some talk about them going Nuclear as they have one of the worlds largest uranium reserves and they export it all over the globe.

Defnitely an interesting idea, & you're right about Oz, they really should be doing likewise. Every country which can, should.