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24 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, LIDDELL, Les, TS 781.
25 NTAS-NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, GIESE, Harry TS 755. All further quotes from Harry Giese come from this interview unless otherwise indicated.
26 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, McKENZIE Malcolm, TS 759.
27 ‘“Learned helplessness” leaves people in major cities unprepared to cope in natural disasters’, Margot O’Neill, Lateline, ABC News, 23 October 2013.
28 Aboriginal fringe dwellers in Darwin: cultural persistence or culture of resistance?, William Bartlett Day BA (Hons), Unpublished Thesis, Department of Anthropology, the University of Western Australia, 2001. All quotes from Bill Day from this thesis, unless otherwise noted.
29 Secret life of wounded spaces. Traumascapes in the contemporary Australia, Maria M. Tumarkin, PhD thesis, Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2002. All other quotes from, or attributed to, Tumarkin come from chapter two of this work.
30 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, FOSTER, Liz, TS 502. All further quotes from Liz Foster come from this interview.
DISAPPEARED
1 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, PERRIN, Janice, TS 537. All further quotes from Janice Perrin come from this interview.
2 Police Station, Darwin, F760, Watch House keeper’s day journals, 1970–80, [before and after Cyclone Tracy from 1974 to 1979]. All other quotes from the watch house journals come from this source.
3 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, WILSON, Bill, TS 1119. All further quotes from Bill Wilson come from this interview unless otherwise indicated.
4 Tracy: The Storm that Wiped Out Darwin on Christmas Day 1974 by Gary McKay, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001, p. 69. All quotes from men out on the harbour come from McKay unless otherwise indicated.
5 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, WRIGHT, Patricia, TS 580. All further quotes from Pat Wright come from this interview.
6 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, CHRISTODOULOU, Savvas, TS 628. All further quotes from Savvas Christodoulou come from this interview.
7 Quoted in Winds of Fury, Keith Cole, Rigby, 1977, p. 16. All other quotes from Keith Cole come from this source.
8 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, SANDERS, Donald, TS 503. All further quotes from Donald Sanders come from this interview.
9 McKay, p. 140.
10 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, LAWRIE, Dawn, TS 505. All further quotes from Dawn Lawrie come from this interview unless otherwise indicated.
11 My description of Wendy James’s experience comes from ‘Wendy James’ ABC Conversations with Richard Fidler, 3 October 2013. All quotes from Wendy come from this source unless otherwise indicated.
12 NTAS, Commissioner of Police, NTRS 2999, Report by BARRY, Constable Terence David.
13 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, DOS SANTOS, Paula, TS 573. All further quotes from Paula Dos Santos come from this interview.
14 Sister Anne Arthur quoted in Stack, pp. 14–15.
15 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, SPILLETT, Peter, TS 663. All further quotes from Peter Spillett come from this interview.
16 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, BARDEN, Roy TS 755. All further quotes from Roy Barden come from this interview.
17 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, COLLINS, Bob TS 831. All further quotes from Bob Collins come from this interview unless otherwise indicated.
18 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, D’AMBROSIO, Ted TS 555. All further quotes from Ted D’Ambrosio come from this interview unless otherwise indicated.
19 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, PATTERSON, Cedric TS 600. All further quotes from Cedric Patterson come from this interview.
20 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, BULLOCK, Robin (Pappy) TS 1058. All further quotes from Robin Bullock come from this interview.
21 McKay, p. 111.
22 Stack, p. 47.
23 NTAS, Commissioner of Police, NTRS 2999, Report by SIMPSON, Sergeant C.
24 NTAS, Commissioner of Police, NTRS 2999, Report by STEPHENSON, Constable. All further quotes from Constable Stephenson are from this report.
25 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, GURD, Charles, TS 678. All further quotes from Charles Gurd come from this interview unless otherwise indicated.
UNCERTAIN LIGHT OF DAWN
1 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, MEANEY, Jack, TS 558. All further quotes from Jack Meaney come from this interview.
2 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, BEARE, Hedley, TS 917. All further quotes from Hedley Beare come from this interview.
3 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, PAULING, Tom, TS 301. All further quotes from Tom Pauling come from this interview.
4 McKay, p. 141.
5 NTAS, Steedman, Pete, NTRS 2366, Transcripts of interviews relating to Cyclone Tracy, 1975–1975, BRENNAN, Harold (Tiger), TS 7901 All further quotes from Tiger Brennan come from this interview unless otherwise indicated.
6 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, CORMICK, Irene, TS 796. All further quotes from Irene Cormick come from this interview.
7 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, HAWKINS, Alan, TS 1088. All further quotes from Hawkins from this source.
8 ‘Institutional response and Indigenous experiences of Cyclone Tracy’, Haynes K., Bird D. K., Carson D., Larkin S. & Mason M., National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, 2011 (Referred to throughout the rest of this book as the Haynes Report.)
9 Gay Alcorn quoted in Tumarkin, p. 242.
10 Quoted in ‘Darwin rebuilt’, Returning to Nothing: The Meaning of Lost Places, Peter Read, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
11 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, BAUER, F. H. (Slim), TS 495. All further quotes from Dr Slim Bauer come from this interview.
12 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, CARROLL, Elizabeth, TS 762. All further quotes from Elizabeth Carroll come from this interview.
13 Telling S
tories: Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand, Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan (eds), ‘In the absence of vita as genre: the making of the Roy Kelly story’, Basil Sansom, Allen & Unwin, 2001.
14 ‘The Year Zero and the North Australian frontier’, Tracking Knowledge in North Australian Landscapes, by Deborah Rose and Anne Clarke, NARU, Darwin, 1997.
15 ‘How accurate are memories of 9/11?’, Ingfei Chen, Scientific American, 6 September 2011.
16 NTAS, Commissioner of Police, NTRS 2999, report by TOWNSEND, Constable G.
17 The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories, Alessandro Portelli, State University of New York Press, 1991, p. 25.
18 ‘Oral history: facts and fiction’, Patrick O’Farrell, Quadrant, vol. 23, no. 11, November 1979.
19 ‘Making disaster pay’, Stephen Fraser, Huffington Post, 4 April 2013. All further quotes from Stephen Fraser come from this article.
THE MISSING AND THE DEAD
1 NTAS, Commissioner of Police, NTRS 2999, Report by BOURNE, Constable.
2 NTAS, Commissioner of Police, NTRS 3001, files relating to the identification of deceased persons after Cyclone Tracy, 1974–83, notebook, Robin Bullock.
3 Also spelled Leone in some records.
4 ‘Why Darwin must have something to say’, Tess Lea, Crikey, 3 April 2014.
5 Darwin, Tess Lea, New South, 2014. All quotes from Lea come from this book unless otherwise indicated.
6 Paul Toohey, quoted in Tumarkin.
7 ‘Bombing toll could be five times higher’, Conor Byrne, Northern Territory News, 19 January 2012.
8 Mickey Dewar, quoted in Tumarkin.
9 ‘Historian denies bombing toll was higher’, Conor Byrne, Northern Territory News, 17 February 2012.
10 NTAS, Steedman, Pete, NTRS 2366, Transcripts of interviews relating to Cyclone Tracy, 1975-1975, MCLAREN, Bill, TS 7912.
11 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, TALBOT, Peter, TS 391. All further quotes from Peter Talbot come from this interview.
12 Very Big Journey: My Life as I Remember It, Hilda Jarman Muir, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004.
13 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, MCLAREN, Bill, TS 7912.
14 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, HARMER Edna, TS 234. All further quotes from Edna Harmer come from this interview.
15 ‘Lilypad of the Arafura’, Tony Clifton, Monthly, no. 8, 2005–06. All further quotes from Clifton come from this article.
16 Haynes Report.
17 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, COLE, Echo, TS 508. All further quotes from Echo Cole come from this interview.
18 Day quoted in Haynes Report.
19 ‘Volunteer divers piece together the mystery of the Booya’, NT Stateline, Sarah Jaensch, 3 November 2006.
DOES ANYBODY KNOW THIS HAS HAPPENED TO US?
1 ‘Cyclone Tracy: A Story of Survival’, a twentieth anniversary Northern Territory News special feature, December 1994.
2 ‘Tempests, thunderheads and trepidation’, John Birmingham, Brisbane Times, 12 January 2011.
3 ‘Emergency 2.0: how social media proved itself in the Queensland floods’, Emma Sykes, ABC Local Radio, 5 April 2011.
4 ‘Local people “need access to technology to survive disasters”’, Mark Tran, Guardian, 17 October 2013.
5 Bushfires Royal Commission 2009: 155–72; Kissane 2010: 86–7, quoted in ‘“Catastrophic failure” theories and disaster journalism: evaluating media explanations of the Black Saturday bushfires’, Burns, Alex and Eltham, Ben, Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture And Policy, 2010. All quotes from Burns and Eltham come from this source.
6 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, ROBERTS, Sally, TS 567.
7 NTAS, NTRS 266, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, THOROGOOD, Colonel Frank, TS 614. All further quotes from Colonel Thorogood are from this interview.
8 ‘Military man became Darwin’s hero’, Damien Murphy, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 October 2012.
WE WILL GET YOU ALL OUT
1 http://www.pprune.org/australia-new-zealand-pacific/473329-cyclonetracy-1974-a.html
2 http://www.pprune.org/australia-new-zealand-pacific/473329-cyclonetracy-1974-a.html
3 NTAS, NTRS 266, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, SEE KEE, Charles, TS 320. All further quotes from Charles See Kee come from this interview.
4 No Man’s Land: Women of the Northern Territory, Barbara James, Collins Australia, 1989, p. 267.
5 Quoted in twentieth anniversary Northern Territory News special feature.
6 Bill Day, quoted in the Haynes Report.
7 ‘Final report of the Darwin Disaster Welfare Council’ (later footnoted as the DDWC Report), Harry Giese (ed.), March 1976.
8 ‘Psychological disturbance in Darwin evacuees following Cyclone Tracy’, G. Parker, Medical Journal Australia, 1975 May 24; 1(21):650–2.
9 ‘Cyclone Tracy and Darwin evacuees’, G. Parker, British Journal of Psychiatry, 1977 June; 130:548–55.
TRACY, YOU BITCH
1 Quoted in Tumarkin.
2 ‘Female-named hurricanes kill more than male hurricanes because people don’t respect them, study finds’, Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 2 June 2014. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capitalweather-gang/wp/2014/06/02/female-named-hurricanes-kill-morethan-male-because-people-dont-respect-them-study-finds//)
3 Quoted in Barbara James, 1989.
4 Quoted in Barbara James, 1989.
5 NTAS, NTRS 266, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, MUIRHEAD, Margaret TS 524. All further quotes from Margaret Muirhead come from this interview.
6 Read, p. 155.
7 NTAS, NTRS 2366, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, BAIRD, Evelyn TS 154. All further quotes from Evelyn Baird come from this interview.
8 Quoted in Barbara James, 1989.
9 Grant Tambling, DDWC report.
10 Quoted in Barbara James, 1989.
11 ‘Gender and Health’, World Health Organization Report, 2002.
12 ‘More Stories Emerge of Rapes in Post-Katrina Chaos’, John Burnett, NPR, 21 December 2005.
13 Northern Territory Annual Report 1975–6.
14 ‘What is the outcome of reporting rape to the police?’ Study of reported rapes in Victoria 2000–03: Summary research report, Zoë Morrison, Australian Institute of Family Studies, ACSSA Newsletter no. 17, 2008.
15 Dawn Lawrie, DDWC Report.
16 ‘Psychological disturbance in Darwin evacuees following cyclone Tracy’, G. Parker, Medical Journal Australia, 1975 May 24; 1(21):650–2.
17 Quoted in Read, p. 154.
18 NTAS, NTRS 226, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS�
�� prefix, 1979–ct, HARVEY, Peter, TS 491. All further quotes from Peter Harvey come from this interview.
DARIBAH NUNGALINYA
1 Haynes Report.
2 NTAS, NTRS 266, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, O’SULLIVAN, Clement John, TS 447. All further quotes from Clem O’Sullivan come from this interview.
3 NTAS, NTRS 266, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, IVORY, Michael, TS 750. All further quotes from Michael Ivory come from this interview.
4 Mackinolty, 1994.
5 Quoted in Tumarkin.
6 Haynes Report.
7 Bunji was edited by Bill Day between 1971 and 1983. Chips Mackinolty has written of the magazine: ‘Starting from wax stencil mimeographs, the 64 issues of Bunji chart the radicalisation of Aboriginal politics thousands of kilometres from better publicised events such as the Tent Embassy.’
8 NTAS, NTRS 266, typed transcripts of oral history interviews with ‘TS’ prefix, 1979–ct, FEJO, Lorna, TS 757. All further quotes from Lorna Fejo come from this interview.
9 Northern Territory News, 28 January 1975.
10 Bunji, September 1975.
11 Indigenous contexts of climate and change: narrating local realities within global discourses, Siri Veland, PhD thesis, Macquarie University, 2011, p. 198.
12 ‘Kiwirrkurra: the flood in the desert’, Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Vol. 24 No. 1, February 2009.
13 ‘Immortal Ones: the road from Kununurra to Derby’, How to Make Gravy, Paul Kelly, Penguin Books, Melbourne, 2010.
14 ‘Flood paintings are history in the making’, Maggie Fletcher , Open ABC, 15 August 2011.
THE WILD NORTH