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The highest temperature recorded in the ACT was 44.0 °C (111.2 °F) at Canberra ... climate zone, with cool to cold weather all year ... and local levels [158] and ...
Queensland – Standard Time Act 1894 [14] New South Wales – Standard Time Act 1987 [15] Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory – Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 [16] Victoria – Summer Time Act 1972 [17] Tasmania – Standard Time Act 1895 [18] and the Daylight Saving Act 2007 [19]
It was previously thought that the highest temperature in Australia was 53.1 °C (127.6 °F) in Cloncurry, Queensland, on 16 January 1889. This record has been removed by the Bureau of Meteorology though as it was measured using a non-standard temperature screen. It is believed that the temperature that day was most likely about 47 °C (117 °F).
For the purposes of Australian federal elections for the House of Representatives, Lawson is in the Division of Canberra. [5] For the purposes of Australian Capital Territory elections for the ACT Legislative Assembly, Lawson is in the Ginninderra electorate. [6]
Time zone: AEST ... featuring opt-outs for Canberra and the ACT when it was a Nine affiliate. Seven airs short local news and weather updates throughout the day ...
The Seat of Government Act 1908 was passed in 1908, which repealed the 1904 Act and specified a capital in the Yass-Canberra region. [ 22 ] [ 33 ] Government surveyor Charles Scrivener was deployed to the region in the same year to map out a specific site and, after an extensive search, settled upon the present location, [ 34 ] basing the ...
Unlike the rest of the state, this region receives the majority of its snow events from southerly weather systems (being largely sheltered from the west). In southern Victoria and West Gippsland , there is a greater chance of late spring and summer snowfall, with an occurrence of snow on 25 December 2006 in the Dandenong Ranges , not more than ...
As a result of the inconsistent adoption of daylight saving, during the Australian summer the mainland's three standard time zones increase to five time zones. South Australia time diverges from Northern Territory time to become UTC+10:30, known as Central Daylight Time (CDT) or Australia Central Daylight Time (ACDT), while the time in the ...