An Aussie friend of mine was a 22-year-old member of a volunteer ambulance company in Darwin when the cyclone hit. She shared her reflections with me this week, looking back at her experience.

Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin's northern suburbs but some of the more robust modern buildings in the heart of the city survived. Rooftops and rubble were strewn across streets like Smith Street ...

The Northern Territory's Emergency Services fear many Darwin residents are unprepared for a severe cyclone. The warning comes as the city remembers the 30th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy.

Cyclone Tracy has been described as the perfect storm, but compounding its sheer force was the fact that it hit Darwin at a time when it was vulnerable, complacent and distracted.

It is hard to comprehend the force with which Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin early on Christmas Day, 1974. It was so ferocious that it killed 66 people, partly or completely destroyed 10,000 homes ...

The aftermath of Cyclone Tracy which hit Darwin in 1974. Credit: Rick Stevens Darwin was more hot, and certainly more humid than other parts of Canberra, but neither it, nor the other suburb ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spent Christmas morning in Darwin reflecting on one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit Australia. Fifty years ago, soon after midnight on Christmas Day 1974 ...

Exactly 50 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin and left a trail of devastation. ... But a greater proportion of those that do hit are expected to be high-intensity, ...

Lucio Matarazzo remembers the fear that swept his body as an 11-year-old boy when Cyclone Tracy hit Darwin and the enormity of watching his parents cry. The family's fibro cottage in the inner ...

Cyclone Tracy hit Darwin in the early hours of Christmas morning in 1974, traumatising the Top End population. Seventy-one people died, more than 600 were injured, and 80 per cent of the city was ...

Antony Bullock, who was 12 years old when Tracy hit, has recalled watching his home in Darwin’s northern suburbs being blown away before his eyes. Two-year-old Brenda being carried after she was ...

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.