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Balloons and spinifex

Australia, 1958
film

The building of a weather station in the Australian desert, showing the work of those who run it and the use made of their reports by the Bureau of Meteorolog..

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Is anybody doing anything about it?

Australia, 1967
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Reaching for the stars

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Australian diary. No. 132

Australia, 1968
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Australian diary. No. 129

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Weatherwise

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Better weather forecasting

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