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This week marked 45 years since the Northern Territory's worst railway accident. Just after 5am on a November morning in 1972, a train...


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It's Beer Can Regatta time again! The first official regatta was held back in June 1974, the brainchild of a couple of visionary locals,...


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"Up, up and away with TAA, the friendly, friendly way..." It's a jingle firmly etched in the memories of many Territorians. For some, it...


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Exactly 135 years ago this week, some newcomers appeared at Rapid Creek, in the territory of the Larrakia and Woolner peoples. A group of...


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Mango season is upon us again! This is almost certainly the earliest known photograph of a mango tree in the Northern Territory, taken at...


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This week the remote community of Lajamanu, 550 kilometres south west of Katherine, celebrated its offical 40th birthday, having been...


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Happy birthday to the Cape Don Light on the Cobourg Peninsula which turns 100 today. It was built during what’s regarded as the "golden...


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This week in 1999, an unusual sight popped up along McMillans Road in Darwin. Following the breakout of violence after East Timor's vote...


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This week marked 145 years since the Overland Telegraph Line was completed, connecting Adelaide to Port Darwin, and Australia with the...


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If Darwin's glorious town hall on Smith Street had survived Cyclone Tracy it would have turned 135 years old this week. Its foundation...


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This week we celebrated World Cat Day and rediscovered this forgotten figure in the Territory’s seafaring history. This cat was the...


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A Vietnamese boat in Darwin Harbour? They were a familiar sight 40 years ago. Refugee boats from war-torn Vietnam began arriving in...


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On this day 190 years ago, Captain James Stirling landed at Raffles Bay on the Cobourg Peninsula, determined to establish a military...


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It 's 100 years since Vestey's Meatworks opened at Bullocky Point in Darwin, on the site where Darwin High School and the Museum and Art...

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This week 190 years ago, the very first European baby was born in the Northern Territory. Elizabeth Melville Richardson was born at Fort...


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On this day 40 years ago, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip were in Darwin to unveil a memorial plaque commemorating those who died...


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Being over 300 kilometres inland was not enough to save the town of Katherine from Japanese bombing during World War II. This week, 75...


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A Japanese diver rests after working in the murky depths of Darwin Harbour in 1959 as part of a salvage operation to clean up Darwin s...


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The glorious Victoria Hotel in the Smith Street Mall was built by legendary entrepreneur Ellen Ryan. She and her husband moved to the...


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Dressed in traditional trousers, a jacket and hat, many remember Granny Lum Loy walking each day from Stuart Park to the centre of...