Darwin doctor remembers Cyclone Tracy
A GP who became Lord Mayor of Darwin has unveiled a commemorative plaque at a photo exhibition launch for the storm's 40th anniversary.
WALKING though Darwin hospital in the days after Cyclone Tracy, Dr Ella Stack remembers sloshing through six inches of bloodstained water in the outpatients' ward.
THE hospital was packed with more than 500 people seeking medical assistance after the ferocious storm tore through the city on Christmas Eve, 1974.
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