Roo family feast
How did you spend New Year's Day? 🎉
Feasting with the family like these hungry-roos? 🍽️
Avoiding light and noise, while you nursed a hang-over? 🥴
Going fishing/camping? 🎣
📹The Kangaroo Sanctuary Alice Springs
ABC News 2024 bloopers
Journalism exists in an often unpredictable world. Here are some moments at ABC News in 2024 across Australia when things didn’t quite go to plan.
✂️Megan Jacobson and David Douglas Stuart for ABC News Digital.
Were there more mosquitoes this year than last year?
Were there more mosquitoes this year than last year? 🦟🦟🦟
Or do we just forget each year how bad the previous year was?
Entomologist Nina Kurucz offers some insight believes that our high tides this wet season impacted mozzie breeding this year. 🌧️🌧️🌧️
🎤Story by Shane Schafer
Like many survivors of a natural disaster, Alison Wallace's experience of Cyclone Tracy shaped her life. Now a psychotherapist, she has had to learn ways to deal with the trauma that followed.
✍️Story by Dianne King https://bit.ly/408mtQC
#Darwin #CycloneTracy #50years #Trauma
How Cyclone Tracy set the stage for 50 years of St John Ambulance in the NT
As Cyclone Tracy's ferocious winds lashed Darwin, St John Ambulance volunteers answered the calls for help, setting the stage for 50 years of service to the Northern Territory.
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Darwin community offers accessible Christmas for people with disabilities
Territorians have decked the halls of Darwin and beyond, putting a tropical twist on classic Christmas lights 🎄
However, for some people with a disability, navigating the festivities can be difficult.
One community event has been working to provide an accessible alternative.
A Merry Christmas for all ... and to all a good night 🎅
🎤 Tilda Colling
In 1988 the ABC took to the streets to ask teens what presents they didn't want to receive on Christmas day.
✂️Megan Jacobson
#Throwback #Christmas
Is this the most Aussie Christmas display in the country?
A very Aussie Christmas 🎄🐊
Amber from Humpty Doo, NT has been making Aussie themed Christmas displays from corrugated iron scraps since 2012.
Would you guess that she is actually the least Christmassy person in her family?
What Aussie Christmas cutout would you like to see Amber do next?
🗣️Amber Sayers-Hunt
🗣️Sage
🗣️Cicadas 🪲🪲🪲
Tracy: A Force of Nature
Fifty years ago, Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin.
Now, in their own words, survivors reflect on the terror, the trauma, and the epic resilience experienced in one of Australia’s worst-ever natural disasters.
Featuring never-before-told stories of survival and some of the ABC’s most incredible archival footage, The ABC exclusive Tracy: A Force of Nature premieres on ABC1 at 7:30pm, December 23.
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Tracy: A Force of Nature
Fifty years ago, Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin.
Now, in their own words, survivors reflect on the terror, the trauma, and the epic resilience experienced in one of Australia’s worst-ever natural disasters.
Featuring never-before-told stories of survival and some of the ABC’s most incredible archival footage, The ABC exclusive Tracy: A Force of Nature premieres on ABC1 at 7:30pm, December 23.
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What happened to the members of the Bali Nine?
The remaining members of the Bali Nine have returned home to Australian soil, 20 years after their arrest. But what happened to the other members?
🎤 Samantha Dick
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