Snowy Mountains Scheme- Australia's largest 'nation building project'

On 17 October 1949, then prime minister Ben Chifley watched the first blast of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme which grew to become the country's greatest engineering project, as well as the cradle of Australia's multicultural society.

Tumut 3 Kraftwerk Source: AAP

Two years ago, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announces plans for a $2 billion expansion of the Scheme but experts doubt the value of new the project and say the money should be spent on other sources of clean energy.

Snowy Hydro 2.0: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull im Tumut 2 Kraftwerk am 28. August 2017 Source: Fairfax Media