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Darwin: Survival of a City - The 1890s

The last decade of the nineteenth century was a tough time for South Australia's Top End settleme...

Darwin 1869

Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn. The Nort...

The Owner’s Guide to the Teenage Brain

The last decade of the nineteenth century was a tough time for South Australia''s Top End sett...

Fort Dundas

Ragged Thirteen

In 1886, a notorious gang of horsemen wreaked havoc on the Overlanders' Trail that stretched acro...

Tammy Damulkurra

"e;a landmark in Australian literature"e; Maurice Rioli, MLA Fifteen year old Tammy Damul...

Tracy: 50 Years, 50 Stories

Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the nigh...

Fort Wellington

The Iwaidja woman, her belly opened by a bayonet, slipped below the dark water. Her 6-year-old da...

Tambora

In the best tradition of Paul Theroux and J. Maarten Troost, comes Derek Pugh's torrid tale of Su...

Darwin: Origin of a City

A crocodile pulls a sleeping man into the river by one leg. Another breaks the neck of a swimming...

Port Essington

For many of the Royal Marines sent to Port Essington, life was a living hell of malaria, scurvy, ...

Escape Cliffs

This is a true story of greed, courage, exploration, murder, wasted efforts, life and death strug...