This fortnight 189 years ago naturalist Charles Darwin went to Bathurst, lamenting how “rancorously divided into parties” we ...
"I think it was a new adventure." Maureen Waldmann says the people of Darwin felt supported by the rest of Australia. (ABC News: Michael Franchi) In a moment of national unity, Australia pulled ...
A recreational pilot who was killed in an ultralight aircraft crash at Fogg Dam on Sunday has been identified as 63-year-old ...
Historian and author Clare Wright has spent a decade investigating the story of petitions on bark created by the Yirrkala ...
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Fifty years ago, Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin—and Australia's attitude to disasters changed foreverThe federal government was forced to step in to oversee mass evacuations of over 30,000 people and lead recovery efforts ...
When the rest of Australia learned what had happened, an unprecedented recovery operation began. Fear of disease prompted a mass evacuation. Of the 47,000 people in Darwin that Christmas ...
We had the Australian Defence Force assisting with the rebuilding of this great city of Darwin, we had people throughout Australia provide their support, their funding and their commitment to the ...
In one of the worst natural disasters Australia has ever seen, at least 66 people died and hundreds more were injured when the category four system struck Darwin on 25 December 1974.
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