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Mal Walden on Cyclone Tracy, interviewed By John Fife (2010)
Title:
Mal Walden on Cyclone Tracy, interviewed By John Fife (2010)
NFSA ID
1009270
Year
2011
Journalist Mal Walden talks about his experience covering Cyclone Tracy in December 1974. In this interview he explains how he came to be sent to Darwin; talks of interactions with Major General Alan Stretton, the devastation, how the crew got the news film/story back to Melbourne (it was the first television news story broadcast on Cyclone Tracy).
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