Exactly 50 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin and left a trail of devastation. It remains one of the most destructive natural events in Australia's history. Wind speeds ...
As tropical cyclone Sean batters the coast of Western Australia, keen weather watchers may be asking the same question: how ...
Severe Tropical Cyclone Tracy is regarded as one of the most significant cyclones in Australia's history. At least 66 people were killed and more than 600 were injured. Eighty per cent of the city ...
Cyclone Tracy survivors broke down in tears as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese paid tribute to those who lost their lives in one of Australia's worst natural disasters. The category four ...
Now, 50 years on, survivors of Cyclone Tracy share their incredible tales ... of people in the biggest civilian evacuation in Australian history. Some survivors had never returned to Darwin ...
Tracy was by no means the most powerful cyclone recorded in Australia, but its path directly ... Jared Archibald is the curator of Territory history at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern ...
“We were pretty much wiped out from history,” Collins ... Surviving Cyclone Tracy and its Aftermath by Patricia Collins, Hachette Australia. Collins says of the 90 or so WRANS servicewomen ...
Cyclone Tracy tore a path of destruction through Darwin that would take years to repair. Gusts reached 217km/h before measuring instruments failed, and 66 people were killed as buildings blew apart ...
Cyclone Tracy survivors broke down in tears as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese paid tribute to those who lost their lives in one of Australia's worst natural disasters. The category four cyclone ...
An emotional Anthony Albanese has reflected on the devastation of Cyclone Tracy while touring a new ... I was a young boy in Sydney but like the rest of Australia and indeed the world, we were ...
Mr Albanese said the 50th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy was a reminder that Australia is “a country ... “As is so often the case in our history, Mother Nature unleashed her wrath, leaving ...