‘Miracles’: Precious wedding album blown away found, returned 50 years later
A wedding, a cyclone, and an abandoned building: how one woman’s exploring uncovered a photo album 50 years lost.
A wedding, a cyclone, and an abandoned building: how one woman’s exploring uncovered a photo album 50 years lost.
On Christmas morning, 1974, Melbourne Herald report Alistair Smith was dispatched to cover Cyclone Tracy. Smith provided his first-hand recollections to this masthead to mark the cyclone’s 50th anniversary.
These days she is one of Australia’s top Salvation Army commanders, but on December 24, 1974, she was a 16-year-old girl cowering in a kitchen alongside her family as Tracy ripped apart their Nightcliff home.
A long-forgotten piece of Cyclone Tracy memorabilia is set to return to Darwin. Read its story.
It was a tragedy that changed Darwin forever. Fifty years on from Cyclone Tracy, the PM has announced new memorials to honour the trauma, memory and resilience of the city.
A group of Darwin creatives have put the call out for aspiring actors to star in their upcoming feature TRACY, with seven major roles up for grab. Find out more about the ambitious project.
A cinematographer’s documentary to honour the 50th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy is one of four projects to receive story development grants. Read why the subject was chosen.
Cyclone Tracy sparked several cultural, structural and vegetative changes in the Northern Territory. Check out the side-by-side comparison photos here.
Cyclone Tracy survivor Gail Coffey prepared for the storm by taping her windows and filling the bath with water. Here’s how the Territory’s emergency plans have changed since then.
ANOTHER permanent marker to commemorate those lost in Cyclone Tracy has been unveiled at a special ceremony at Christ Church Cathedral.
YOU have probably never heard of Poppy Papazoglou but chances are you’ve seen her in this iconic photo taken after Cyclone Tracy.
A HYSTERICAL Rosemary Butler searched frantically for her two-year-old boy among the rubble of her disintegrated home in Moil.
CYCLONE Tracy is Senator Nova Peris’s first clear memory of childhood.
JOHN May was the ABC Radio announcer on duty in Darwin on Christmas Eve in 1974 when Cyclone Tracy hit.
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