Not relevant here, but rather surprisingly, Australia does export snow-making machines to Switzerland. Climate change is making snowfall less reliable in both countries.
On the Supercars, they started as genuine production cars you could buy at car dealers. The slogan was "Win at Bathurst on Sunday, buy on Monday". So we had the fastest 4-door production cars in the world you could actually buy
My office in Canberra was bang in the middle of the parliamentary triangle and across the road from Parliament House. For two years in a row, the Supercars raced right there, but winter in Canberra is too cold for the punters and we gave up holding that race!
