Veevers has made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the sedimentary basins of Australia, both on and offshore. Basic mapping of several onshore basins was followed by interpretation of offshore basins by sedimentological and geophysical methods, and finally interpretation of the whole continental plate in terms of the evolution of Gondwana. He is now involved in the recognition of tectonic-climatic global supercycles that define major phases in the development of the Earth during the last 1000 million years. His book synthesising the Phanerozoic history of the continent, has set a new standard for works of this kind published anywhere in the world.