The Bureau of Meteorology’s Senior Meteorologist Ian Shepherd has analysed Cyclone Tracy and says its winds could have been up to 290km/hr as measuring equipment failed, putting it as a category four system and explains the developments in technology and forecasting since

Freda Brocker says she was badly injured after Cyclone Tracy and became separated from her daughter Brenda Brocker, who was taken into the care of the Salvos and evacuated to Brisbane

Kieth Pratt, who was a 21-year-old sailor when Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin in 1974, shares his story ahead of the 50th anniversary of one of Australia’s most devastating natural disasters