Victoria receives a "temperature whiplash" with summer snow and record cold temperatures after days of heatwave conditions.
Parts of New South Wales have woken to find the landscape covered by a light blanket of snow. The areas include Guyra, in New England in the state's north, and Oberon, west of the Blue Mountains.
On 17 October 1949, then prime minister Ben Chifley watched the first blast of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric ... as well as the cradle of Australia's multicultural society.