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Speaker 1: And we are continuing our coverage of Cyclone Tracy fifty

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Speaker 1: who was the doctor on Judy at the hospital when

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Speaker 1: Cyclone Tracy struck. He'd been an intern doctor for all

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Speaker 2: You, stay, good morning.

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Speaker 1: It's lovely to have you in the studio. Now tell

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Speaker 2: Right Well, I had come as a seventeen year old

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Speaker 1: So you chose Darwin over New York.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I love.

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Speaker 1: That's what an awesome I mean that part of the

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Speaker 2: And my son's say, thank god you did that, Dad,

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Speaker 1: So true, whereas the life that you grow up with

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Speaker 1: And so relaxed and free, you know, so tell me

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Speaker 1: Where were you? What were you doing on that night?

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Speaker 2: Right? Well, I knew I was coming on duty at

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So where did you shelter or what happened for

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Speaker 2: It popped up in the air like a champagne cork. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, no one could get into the hospital. I

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Speaker 1: And so did you have to go out and find people?

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Speaker 1: Did they come in. What happened, I didn't have to.

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Speaker 1: And what types of injuries were you starting to see?

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Speaker 1: What were you starting to see coming right?

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Speaker 2: I mean the the injuries were horrendous. There were mostly

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Speaker 2: Bromidge did amazing things that day. He didn't go and

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Speaker 1: Doctor Bradley, is there a moment that you look back

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Speaker 2: I think within that first hour when you just realized

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Speaker 1: It's incredible really to see the way that medical professionals

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Speaker 2: Well, it was obviously the extremely high volume for that

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Speaker 2: And by about six seven o'clock that night, most of

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Speaker 2: I do have a memory of the doctors arriving from Sydney.

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Speaker 2: I think a Hercules came up. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: remember coming in and saying to Alan Brondge, okay, what

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Speaker 1: Well that's right, the injuries you're dealing with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like a war zone to him that

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Speaker 2: it was the same sort of thing as the song. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And the only time I saw him fazed was when

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Speaker 2: he was told that the senior anethis had been killed

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Speaker 1: I can't even imagine what that would have been like,

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Speaker 1: learning that one of your work colleagues yea, had passed

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Speaker 2: Hospital doctor Macklin, who was an English an ethist, who

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Speaker 2: was a senior an ethist, and he lived a couple

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Speaker 2: had tried to get in there as soon as possible,

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Speaker 2: and he really left a little bit too soon, was

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Speaker 1: Apparently terrible stuff and shows the magnitude I think of

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Speaker 1: cyclone Tracy, as we go, as we you know, as

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Speaker 1: you when you look back at at those at that day,

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Speaker 1: way in which the people of Darwin have really sort

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Speaker 2: I think it has bound people together. There is a

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Speaker 2: it's like a code of honor. Were you here during

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Speaker 1: Yep?

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Speaker 2: And I know friends who weren't here during the cyclone

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Speaker 2: holda and they've never really quite forgiven themselves for not

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Speaker 2: a band or brothers fellowship that did develop, and gladly

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Speaker 2: the it's some of it's been lost. Darwin certainly doesn't

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Speaker 2: it's changed in other ways and it's developed its own

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Speaker 2: new character, which is again, you know, I find just

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Speaker 2: compared to anywhere else I've been just so attractive as

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Speaker 2: a police slivia.

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Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, it is such a great place. Some Splash

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Speaker 1: has messaged in from Humpty Doo where he called in

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Speaker 1: to see if I could ask you were you the

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Speaker 1: doctor that lived in Packard Street?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: No, okay, because Splash had recently told us the story

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Speaker 1: doctor putting his whites into after he'd made a washing machine,

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Speaker 1: and we thought, oh, f you were that notorious doctor

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Speaker 2: I lived in a building called po Q three Professional

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Speaker 2: Officers Quarters, which was on the hospital ground. Yeah right,

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Speaker 2: and that sort of got blown away or the top

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well, doctor Stephen Badly, I really appreciate you

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Speaker 1: joining me on the show this morning. I know it's

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Speaker 1: not easy for everybody to sort of recall the time

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Speaker 1: of cyclone Tracy, but I think the response from our

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Speaker 2: I think it was remarkable how everything did swing even

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Speaker 2: though these people, often you know, the doctors, came from

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Speaker 2: their own ruined houses and their own families to come

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Speaker 2: into the hospital. I think that was a fantastic thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you so much for joining me this morning.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely thrilled to have you in the studio on

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Speaker 1: A big thanks to Dominica, your beautiful partner, who is

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Speaker 1: a good friend of ours as well, for bringing you

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Speaker 1: in thank you, thank you,