Kojak, the English sheepdog, watched on as his owner, Gary Chaplin, pulled together a snowball while he cleared his patio in Scullin of snow. Indeed the streets of Canberra saw the first snow in eight years, The Canberra Times reported on this day 37 years ago.
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A weather bureau spokesman said a "cold outburst" had seen between one and two centimetres of snow fall in the city, with the hills dusted in white. Police were forced to close Black Mountain Road and the students at Charnwood High School and Primary School got the day off thanks to a burst water main. It had been seriously cold in the capital, with the minimum temperature dipping to minus 9 degrees earlier in the week. Up to 30 centimetres of snow had fallen in the Kosciusko National Park.
Meanwhile, on the inside pages, ANU Students Association administrator Gary Humphries, a future ACT chief minister, said student feeling had shifted to the right and it was likely the association would withdraw from the Australian Union of Students. "In 1974, when the [union] was strong, there was a lot of student activism, and since then the students have become more studies-oriented and no longer have any great interest in activism," Mr Humphries said.
Jasper Lindell
Jasper Lindell joined The Canberra Times in 2018. He is a Legislative Assembly reporter, covering ACT politics and government. He also writes about development, transport, heritage, local history, literature and the arts, as well as contributing to the Times' Panorama magazine. He was previously a Sunday Canberra Times reporter.
Jasper Lindell joined The Canberra Times in 2018. He is a Legislative Assembly reporter, covering ACT politics and government. He also writes about development, transport, heritage, local history, literature and the arts, as well as contributing to the Times' Panorama magazine. He was previously a Sunday Canberra Times reporter.
