How did the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme come to be Australia's greatest economic achievement in the decades following World War II?

ON 17 OCTOBER 1949, construction commenced on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, one of the largest engineering feats ever undertaken in Australia. Situated among the Snowy Mountains in ...

The Snowy Mountains Scheme will be added to the national heritage list.

This was published 6 years ago Flashback: The Snowy Mountains Scheme is completed 45 years ago, the Governor General, Sir Paul Hasluck, performed a ceremony to mark the completion of the $800 ...

On 17 October 1949, then prime minister Ben Chifley watched the first blast of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme which grew to become the country's greatest engineering project, as well as ...

Australia's Snowy Mountains hydro-electric Scheme is a shining beacon of what can be achieved when nations welcome displaced migrants rather than retreating into isolationism.