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In colonial Australia, there was a useful household book called an almanac. It contained lots of information, including weather forecasts and pictures of the flags used to signify approaching storms.

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Antarctica has been explored by meteorologists since the early 1900s. Blizzards are common there.

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In 1877, meteorologist and astronomer Henry Russell produced the first published weather map for the colony of New South Wales.

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Colonial settlers brought with them to Australia the concept of four distinct seasons. While this works for much of southern Australia, non-Indigenous people in the other parts of Australia identify seasonal change as wet and dry.

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Design and Technologies standards for Year 5 and 6. It draws on the Library’s Wolfgang Sievers Collection to explore how photography, design and industry have transformed modern Australia, encouraging students to investigate how technologies are developed, used, and understood in social and environmental contexts.

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Modernism was a cultural movement that influenced visual arts, architecture, music, literature and design in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Wolfgang Georg Sievers, AO (1913–2007) was a well-known modernist photographer who documented Australian architecture and industry over a career spanning almost 60 years.

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Sievers’ work is a pictorial timeline showing Australia’s social, technological and industrial transformation.