Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Darwin to mark the 50th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy, Australia’s largest peacetime evacuation and reconstruction.
Fifty years ago, soon after midnight on Christmas Day 1974, Cyclone Tracy tore through the remote northern capital of Darwin.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a visit to the reopened Cyclone Tracy exhibit at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin.On Wednesday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will take Whitlam’s advice and join survivors of the disaster, some of the city’s current residents, Governor-General Sam Mostyn and Defence Force chief David Johnston – a survivor of the cyclone – in Darwin to mark the tragedy.
“But it’s also important that it’s an opportunity for us to remind ourselves as a nation that at the worst of times, we see the best of the Australian character,” he said.
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