Building the Snowy on SBS – Building the Snowy tells the remarkable, surprising, and sometimes controversial story of “The Snowy” from the original idea in the aftermath of The Second World War when Australia’s population was less than seven and a half million to the present, when great machines and an international workforce are again building for Australia’s future.
Told against the backdrop of one of the most rugged and beautiful parts of the country, this is an engineering story, an industrial and an environmental story.
But it is much more, it is a story—told by engineers and scientists, Snowy workers past and present, historians and members of local communities—about a project whose impact reached across Australia and whose influence changed Australian society.
Season One, Episode One: The Idea
The Idea focuses on the challenges and solutions involved in building the original Snowy and Snowy 2.0. The political manoeuvres that were necessary to get the idea off the drawing board, the problems posed by the land and the climate, the solutions found for a country that, at the time.
Building the Snowy – New Series Premiere – Wednesday, 23 August at 8.30pm on SBS and SBS on Demand (3 parts)
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