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Many of the government records associated with Cyclone Tracy became publicly available on 1 January 2005 under the 30-year rule. On 25 December 2024 – the 50th anniversary – a memorial was unveiled at East Point Reserve, where the cyclone made landfall. The memorial includes individual plaques with the names of the deceased. [33]
Cyclone Tracy is a 1986 Australian drama mini series about Cyclone Tracy. [1] In 1986, the Nine Network and PBL created the mini-series based on the events during the cyclone. . Michael Fisher, Ted Roberts and Leon Saunders wrote the series, and it starred Chris Haywood and Tracy Mann, who played the lead characters of Steve and Conn
His most recent works are The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: Living, Fighting and Dying in WWII cruisers(Big Sky, 2023) and Cyclone Warriors - the Armed Forces and Cyclone Tracy (Avonmore, 2024, for the 50th commemoration of the 1974 disaster) From 2013-2020 Lewis was the Chairman of the Order of Australia Association (NT).
Operation Navy Help Darwin was a disaster relief operation initiated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) following the destruction of Darwin, Northern Territory by Cyclone Tracy during the night of 24–25 December 1974. 13 ships, 11 aircraft, and 3,000 personnel were sent to Darwin in the largest disaster relief operation undertaken by the RAN in its history.
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Ritchie was cast as Molly, the child lead in the 1986 Nine Network–PBL mini-series Cyclone Tracy, starring Chris Haywood and Tracy Mann. [6] She started working with Home and Away in 1987, at age 8. Production began in July 1987 (shortly before her ninth birthday) and it premiered on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988.
He has subsequently worked with Community Arts WA, producing radio features which assist Aboriginal communities to tell their own stories and has also presented VoicePrints for the Perth International Arts Festival' Bunbury's documentary series covered such topics as Cyclone Tracy, Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, and the granting of ...
Major General Alan Bishop Stretton, AO, CBE (30 September 1922 – 26 October 2012) was a senior Australian Army officer. He came to public prominence through his work in charge of cleanup efforts at Darwin in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Day 1974. [1]