Visitors of Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens would frequently say plants in bloom were experiencing an 'early spring', leading Dr Tim Entwisle to believe there should be five seasons.

“Four seasons just don’t make sense,” says Tim. He developed his own five-season model for Australia’s central east, but says that because climate and weather patterns vary substantially, different ...

The first, or the 21st, day of September is the start of spring in some countries. But not, I think, in Australia. Australia is different. It has different seasons. Yet most Australians don’t ...

We all know the names of the seasons; summer, autumn, winter and spring. But did you know Australia's Indigenous cultures had completely different seasons each designed around local weather ...

In Australia, we’ve got our seasons all wrong Spring has sprung, but given our seasons are based on the European climate, it could be time to ditch them for something more Australian.

Australia's seasons are inaccurate relics of colonialism and should be replaced with Aboriginal ones, politically correct rabble rousers claim. Melburnians complained online they were still ...

An Australian scientist says the continent needs five or six seasons to suit its climate. Tim Entwisle, chief of Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens, says Australia should "unhook" itself from the ...