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Belle Gibson, teenage lives and trying to find the traitors: what we’re streaming this March

This month, as the weather stays high and you’re likely to want to stay under the air-conditioning, our experts have a cornucopia of shows and films they’re watching to suit every mood.

The Conversation · Mar 2, 2025

'A love story': rebuilding Darwin after Tracy

Survivors gathered at the shoreline in Darwin at dawn to remember the moment 50 years earlier when Cyclone Tracy made landfall, claiming 66 lives.

AAP · Dec 24, 2024

Australian story: PM remembers 50 years of Tracy

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has reflected on how Cyclone Tracy impacted the nation on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Darwin being flattened.

AAP · Dec 24, 2024

Cyclone Tracy: nation remembers 50 years on

The top end community flattened by Cyclone Tracy in 1974 will come together to remember those killed, homes destroyed and a city rebuilt.

AAP · Nov 29, 2024

Australia's close-up, cropped from 11 million photos

From Cyclone Tracy to Snowy Hydro, pictures by a government photography unit captured life in Australia over more than 50 years.

AAP · Nov 15, 2024

Memories remain of Darwin's worst disaster, 50 years on

A kinetic sculpture will commemorate victims and survivors of one of the worst natural disasters to ravage an Australian city, 50 years on.

AAP · Mar 12, 2024

Cyclone Tracy caused $200m of damage. A repeat now would cost $7.4bn, Australian insurers say

The estimate exceeds $6bn paid out by insurers for Australia’s costliest disaster, the 2022 NSW and Queensland floods

The Guardian - AU · Sep 12, 2023

Dr Ella Stack, mayor who guided Darwin through Cyclone Tracy aftermath, dies aged 94

A trailblazer across medicine and local politics, Dr Stack was one of Darwin's first doctors to open a private general practice and the city's first female mayor.

ABC News · May 22, 2023

Cyclone Tracy plane with historic tourism links becomes Danish conference centre

An airliner that was involved in Australia's largest civil evacuation before it became the world's first plane to display tourism livery has been tracked down in Scandinavia.

ABC News · Mar 25, 2023

Rare green lightning spotted in record Darwin storm

Darwin residents have reported seeing rare green lightning in a record-breaking storm that saw the strongest wind gust since Cyclone Tracy.

ABC News · Oct 11, 2022