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APMG (Andrew Parsons Media Group) is an Australian-based broadcast media, marketing and communications agency with 35 years’ industry experience. Our client base includes Australian and overseas projects allowing us to meet and work with a rich diversity of people. It is here that we share those conversations with some of those people. Founder, Andrew Parsons, began his media career in regional radio in Australia (1989) while still in high school. Making the shift into television in 1992, Andrew’s career spans broadcast work in television production and news in Australia and overseas. This experience led to senior executive roles in media and communications across all tiers of government (federal, state and local) in Australia, working for high-profile agencies, and leading extensive teams. This experience in media, a vast network of contacts, and involvement in diverse media projects allows APMG to bring conversations with people, and special feature essays, to life through podcasting. Welcome to APMG. Join in and enjoy our conversations.
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On Christmas Eve 1974, a small but intense tropical storm named Cyclone Tracy smashed into the northern Australian capital city of Darwin, Northern Territory (NT). Over Christmas Eve and into the early hours of Christmas Day, Cyclone Tracy inflicted deadly destructive winds that destroyed most of Darwin and its surrounding suburbs, taking the lives of 66 people and injuring hundreds – many very seriously.
My mum, a registered nurse, was working at (then) Darwin Hospital and living by herself in suburban Darwin at the time of Cyclone Tracy.
Between 1971 to 1974, my mum had: emigrated to Australia from the United Kingdom, started working in Australia as a nurse, met my father, got married, had me, separated, started raising me on her own, and then survived one of Australia’s biggest peacetime natural disasters.
On the eve of the 50th anniversary, APMG presents, ‘Me… My mum… and a cyclone named Tracy’, a real-life survivor’s account of this historical and significant Australian event.
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