Victorian National Party leader Peter Ryan was quoted as saying that Bracks had " killed the man from Snowy River ", a reference to the Banjo Paterson poem " The Man from Snowy River ".

In Australia, Newton-John hosted the animal and nature series Wild Life and guest starred as Joanna on two episodes of the Australian series The Man From Snowy River.

Cattle were taken out of Kosciuszko National Park in NSW during the 1950s and 1960s due to concerns about the effect of grazing on water quality for the Snowy River Scheme.

When the Victorian state government ( controlled by the Australian Labor Party ) announced plans to end this grazing, the then federal government, controlled by a coalition of conservative parties who are the ALP's traditional opponents, floated the idea of using national cultural heritage powers ( on the basis of the cultural place given to the mountain cattleman, notably through The Man from Snowy River ) to override the state decision.

1982's The Man from Snowy River starring Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton dramatised the classic Banjo Paterson poem of that name and became one of the all time box-office successes of Australian cinema.

The " for-sale " property in the film was actually called " Hiawatha " and was on the Snowy River just north of Old Jindabyne ( now under the waters of Lake Jindabyne ).

* Fort Stanton – Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area

* Snowy River

Snowy River is a national park in Victoria ( Australia ), 323 km east of Melbourne.

Little River gorge is Victoria's deepest gorge, with the Little River dropping 610 metres off the Wulgulmerang plateau over 14 km to the Snowy River at an elevation of 122 metres above sea level.

The road is designated unsuitable for caravans, trailers and semi-trailers due to its long, narrow, and steep descent down to McKillops Bridge which crosses the Snowy River near its juncture with the Deddick River.

A camping site near McKillops Bridge provides an excellent site for swimming, launching canoes and rafting through the rugged gorges downstream, or the start for the 18km Silver Mine Walking Track and the short Snowy River Trail.

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* Snowy River Shire

Lawson is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest writers of short stories, while Paterson's poems The Man From Snowy River and Clancy of the Overflow remain amongst the most popular Australian bush poems.

The 1980s is often regarded as a golden age of Australian cinema, with many successful films, from the historical drama of Gallipoli, to the dark science fiction of Mad Max, the romantic adventure of The Man From Snowy River or the comedy of Crocodile Dundee.

* Among many others, Kirk Douglas allegedly turned down the role of Shelleen ; ironically, many years later he would play a similar double role in The Man from Snowy River.

Pearce also found roles in other television series such as Home and Away ( 1988 ) and Snowy River: The McGregor Saga ( 1993 ).

The Murray also receives water from the complex dam and pipeline system of the Snowy Mountains Scheme.

Major General Thomas Hardwicke ’ s 1821 presentation of an article titled " Description of a new Genus of the Class Mammalia, from the Himalaya Chain of Hills Between Nepaul and the Snowy Mountains " at the Linnean Society in London is usually regarded as the moment the red panda became a bona fide species in Western science.

On 28 August 2002, Bracks, in conjunction with his then New South Wales counterpart, Bob Carr, opened the Mowamba aqueduct between Jindabyne and Dalgety, to divert 38 gigalitres of water a year from Lake Eucumbene to the Snowy and Murray rivers.

Numerous rarities have also been recorded including Black-browed Albatross and Snow Goose, and a single pair of Snowy Owls bred on Fetlar from 1967 to 1975.

The area around Traralgon was first settled by Europeans in the 1840s soon after being explored by Count Paweł Strzelecki on his return from the Snowy Mountains where he named Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

The town is situated in the historic Judith Gap, which is a small gap between the two towering mountain ranges ( Big Snowy Mountains and Little Belt Mountains ) that separate Central Montana from Southern Montana.

In the film The Adventures of Tintin which is directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson, there is a brief scene where Captain Haddock mistakes Snowy for a " Rat Monkey from Sumatra ".

Water from Snowy Mountains snow melt is used to generate electricity and divert water for irrigation.

The chief engineer, New Zealand-born William Hudson ( knighted 1955 ), was chosen to head the scheme as Chairman of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority, and was instructed to seek workers from overseas.

The Scheme was managed by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority, and took 25 years to build, from 1949 to 1974, at the cost ( at that time ) of A $ 820 million ; a dollar value equivalent in 1999 and 2004 to A $ 6 billion.

Though Skiing in Australia began in the northern Snowy Mountains in the 1860s, it was the construction of the vast Snowy Scheme from 1949, with its improvements to infrastructure and influx of experienced European skiers among the workers on the Scheme that really opened up the Mountains for the large scale development of a ski industry, and led to the establishment of Thredbo and Perisher as leading Australian resorts.

The two Governments were equivocal about this target ; aside from economic considerations there was a view that the health of the Murray is more important than that of the Snowy and any extra environmental flows are better used there instead.

The Dalgety District and Community Association now holds an annual ' Snowy River Day ' on 31 August to commemorate when the three governments, Victoria, NSW and the Commonwealth with high profile former Australian Conservation Foundation President, and now Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett oversaw the temporary release of water from the Moonbah or Mowamba River, a tributary of the Snowy River.

Riley's horseriding skills reputedly made him the inspiration for Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River.

The ride does not take in the Snowy River because, within the poem, Clancy describes to the other men the country where " the man from Snowy River " comes from.

It is sometimes called the European Eagle-Owl and is, in Europe where it is the only member of its genus besides the Snowy Owl ( B. scandiacus ), occasionally abbreviated to just Eagle-Owl.

Snowy Owls lose their black feathers with age, though particularly females retain some. The Snowy Owl is typically found in the northern circumpolar region, where it makes its summer home north of latitude 60 degrees north.

The plot revolves around the young reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy who travel to the United States, where he plans to report on the crime syndicate then active in Chicago.

Snowy, alive after all, helps Tintin and his friends escape by distracting the two guards, enabling Tintin to knock them out, and find the bunker where Carreidas is held prisoner.

In 2002, Parker took part in the Australian musical theatre production The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular, where she appeared as " Kate Conroy ", the daughter of the Station owner, " John Conroy " – and the romantic interest of " Jim Ryan " ( The Man ).

Tintin and Snowy have reached a dead end so they return home, where they hear the news that San Theodoros has made peace with Nuevo-Rico, and the oil companies ' machinations went for nothing because there was no oil after all.

While Gustav leads Haddock to a pile of abandoned tyres, Tintin follows Snowy to a buried chain which, when pulled, opens a passage to a hidden cave where the criminals have stashed the stolen art.

* Snowy Summit – A frigid, snow-covered mountain range, where Chilly the Snowman and his snow puppy Nippy live.

However, the painkiller wore off and was taken to the hospital and missed the final encore of " Us and Them " where second guitarist Snowy White had to fill in on bass guitar.

The first appearance of Thomson and Thompson was in Cigars of the Pharaoh, when they came into conflict with Tintin on board a ship where he and Snowy were enjoying a holiday cruise.

The highest point on the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington is at 7, 200 ft ( 2, 200 m ) on the northwest flank of Old Snowy Mountain, where the trail crosses the edge of the Packwood Glacier.

Wren, along with promoters Snowy Baker and Hugh D. McIntosh, was accused of using his influence to prevent the great young Australian boxer Les Darcy from fighting in America, where he had fled at the end of 1916 to earn money to support his family ( according to Darcy ) before he would serve in WWI.

Orbost is a town in the Shire of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne and south of Canberra where the Princes Highway crosses the Snowy River.

Areas of interest include the Snowy Range where the highest peak is Medicine Bow Peak at and is visible from Snowy Range Pass,, on Wyoming highway 130.

* Site where construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme began in 1949.

The traditional method of removal, called brumby running, is reminiscent of Banjo Paterson's iconic poem, The Man from Snowy River where expert riders rope the Brumbies and remove them to a new location.