Australasia occupies an important zone at the confluence of the Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans. Environments in the region range from tropical rainforest, to deserts, mountains, subantarctic islands and tundra. The deserts of central Australia are an important feature that have contracted and expanded through time, as have the temperate forests and grasslands. This vast array of ecosystems presents significant challenges for finding records of climate change that are both spatially representative and temporally continuous. This leaves some major gaps for reconstructing environments and quantifying past climate variability as a basis from which to compare present-day and future climate change. Continuous paleoclimate records can be found in lakes, wetlands, speleothems, and deep marine environments, but many areas only provide fragmentary records in the form of moraines, sand dunes, fluvial deposits and lake shorelines. This session will focus on new records that address these challenges for understanding climate and environmental change in Australia, Aotearoa-New Zealand, and Oceania. We invite presentations that improve existing chronologies or that discuss climate or environmental proxies, particularly studies that provide new insights or provide quantitative records. We particularly welcome presentations on cold intervals and records from the last glacial maximum through to the late Holocene.