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This is the Friends Vistory Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor.

Two, New South Wales, Jeremy Zakis reporting on first the climate and unusual events that have a historical frame.

And then, of course, reptiles. And finally, the preparation for the Ashes match starting July of this year is comparable to warfare, sometimes called lawfare.

First, however, the unusual weather. Jeremy, a very good day to you in New South Wales. I recall less than a month ago we were reporting a record number of days above a certain temperature with photographs of people at the beach in New South Wales, Sydney Beach.

And everybody enjoying the late, what you'd have to say is the late fall weather. Now you're reporting that things have changed dramatically. Where is it snowing? Good evening, too, Jeremy.

You know, John, yes, that's right. We've got snow now after really, really more temperatures, very lazy into the winter season. We've got incredible amounts of snow. And where it's snowing, John, if you look at a map of the strailer, it's basically from on the right hand side of the map from effectively halfway up the state of Victoria.

So the bottom right state all the way up through to Sydney to pretty much just south of the Queensland border. And I've got to say we've had snow in places like Canberra as well, which normally doesn't get snow at this time of year, but yesterday it got a dusting of snow. So I have to admit a lot of the snow was in the mountainous region. So it wasn't elevation, but even where I am here in Sydney, John, we actually got snow near sea level. And you can actually see the flakes coming down, but the problem was because it had been, I guess, slightly warmer.

Air temperature because we've had rain and a little bit of how just before the snow never really stuck to the ground, but this is amazing. I don't remember a time when we've had snow at this point of the year. And I certainly don't remember snow coming on the back of such a record temperature that we had in in last couple of what was basically a last couple of months, but only two weeks ago was where we had the record temperatures. So the weather's really done this whiplash once again.

And if I understand correctly, you have strong winds as well. Is it a cold wind?

It is incredibly icy, John. It's like having basically pinned stuck into you if you stand out into it. And the reason for this is it's coming from Antarctica.

So we have a weather system that's coming. I guess you could say from the opposite direction to what we're usually used to where it normally comes in for the west.

This one came from the south and it basically was straight up the east and coastline of Australia. And this is where not only the snow came from, but also the hail conditions. So we had a lot of rain and hail, which meant the wind itself when it hit you, it was incredibly incredibly cold.

You're also reporting six meter high waves. Is that a problem for shipping? Is that a problem for the coastline?

And that is a problem. And certainly a problem for shipping is a problem, for example, in Sydney harbor for a lot of the ferries to because the waves in the harbor were starting to get quite high there.

And because it was coming from an unusual group, well, a relatively unusual direction this time of year from the south. A lot of the weather was pushing the shipping in towards the coastline.

So we sometimes get a lot of offshore waves in about this time of year. So those heavy waves, especially being so close to the coastline, did cause a bit of problem.

But we were lucky there weren't any shipping incidents for reported a lot of basically to a lot of people stayed off out of the water to do because sometimes we get a lot of surfers that try and brave the waves in these conditions, but yesterday nobody really got caught out.

So we got lucky. It wasn't a time when a lot of tourists were in the water, but honestly, John, this was a very, very strange event.

What this could be is a predicate for La Nina. Your meteorologist has indicated that La Nina is probable, probable. I've been reading about La Nina's in history. La Nina's 1638, 1639, 1640, 1642, and a few more in the 1640s associated first with unusual rain pattern and then a deep drought over many years.

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