A public centre is set up as a temporary refuge for people displaced by the cyclone. Meals are provided along with medical services such as typhoid and tetanus vaccinations.

Workers are shown in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy fixing roofs and securing tarpaulin for protection. Fallen trees, collapsed buildings, debris and shells of houses can be seen.

Darwin has a rich aviation history and the establishment of the airline Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd, which was to become Qantas Australia, is closely tied to the region.

The feature film Australia (2008), directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman, is an epic historical romantic drama set between 1939 and 1942 against a dramatised

Australians for a Free East Timor (AFFET) was established in Darwin in late November 1991.

This SAS 7 news item from 1989 devotes almost four minutes to the danger of Chironex fleckeri, commonly known as the box jellyfish or stinger.

A snapshot from 1963 of all that Darwin has to offer including pubs, schools, sport, churches and wildlife. The emphasis is on a relaxed, tropical lifestyle in the Top End.

From the Film Australia Collection of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA).

In 1988 Australia celebrated 200 years since the arrival of the First Fleet of British convict ships at Sydney in 1788.

This footage presents Darwin in 1949, still recovering from Japanese attack during the Second World War, but showing signs of building activity.