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Does Australia really have more snow than Switzerland? For some people it comes as a surprise to hear that Australia receives any snow at all!
Here is a selection of clips from our collection tracing...
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With winter underway, we look at freak snow – snowfalls at unexpected times and places – through footage from the NFSA News and Current Affairs Program.
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With winter here, take a look at newsreels, home movies, news reports and short documentaries from the NFSA collection about skiing in Australia.
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The snow storm that hit Canberra on 28 May 2000 will live on forever in the minds of Canberra Raiders and West Tigers rugby league supporters. No NRL (National Rugby League) game had ever been played...
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The dramatic rescue of Stuart Diver is captured in this news item from the television station, NBN 3.
When 3,500 tonnes of rock and mud slid down the side of Thredbo in 1997, it took two ski lodges...
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No, it's not a hoax, snow did fall on Uluru on 11 July 1997. So rare is this weather phenomena that no record of such an event appears in any stories of the local Pitjantjatjara Anangu people....
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If it's hard for some to accept there is snow in Australia at all what about snow falling in summer! This news clip shows some heavy falls only two weeks before the official start of summer. But even...
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This newsreel segment from 1937 about an international skiing competition at Mt Townsend starts by looking at the competitors' headwear and then shows the New Zealand team performing a haka on skis!...
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A couple ski in tandem down a small incline before the woman jumps off and the man falls over. Another couple toboggan down the incline by sitting on their skis. The final shot shows three women...
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'Black shadows on a field of white...' - this is a National Film Board promotion for winter sports in Australia’s Alpine region, made in 1947.
Before chair lifts, T-bars and the like, skiers had to...