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Northern Territory Chronicle
Nineteen Seventy Four to Nineteen Ninety Nine
Foreword
Neil R Conn AO
Administrator of the Northern Territory
Darwin, February 1999
The Northern Territory Chronicle attempts to capture, by date and brief description, events of significance in or involving the Northern Territory of Australia from 1974 to 1998. (1999 events have been included in this Chronicle.)
The 25 year period covered by the Chronicle, starting with the year of Cyclone Tracy when Darwin was devastated, is probably the most significant in the modern history of this vast but sparsely populated part of Australia.
The entries are, almost without exception, too brief to do justice to the events and happenings reported, but hopefully will encourage the enquiring reader to look to other library and Internet sources for more detail and background. Each entry is accompanied by an icon which classifies the entry into a broad group of similar entries. It is there principally to facilitate searching by subject when the Chronicle is loaded onto the Internet page of the Northern Territory Library, although the task of assigning the classifications has also served to put a little more balance into the coverage of particular areas of interest.
My thanks are due to Helen Wilson and Elizabeth Estbergs for demonstrating, by their original Chronicle published in June 1984, that the task is worth doing. Anita Angel prepared the first draft over a very busy two months in early 1998, Michael Loos provided extraordinary help in several subsequent edits, and Ursula Carolyn assisted me greatly in finishing the present volume.
In the background, and particularly in the early stages, I received valuable assistance and advice from an expert committee comprising David Carment, Mickey Dewar, Peter Forrest, Francis Good, Alistair Heatley, Michael Loos and Alan Powell.
Production of the booklet has been in the capable, and patient, hands of John Krajsek and his team at NT Uniprint.
None of the individuals who have helped me have any responsibility for the finished product - that responsibility, particularly any eccentricity evident in the choice of events or their description, is mine alone.
I hope that any reader who has a problem with a particular entry or its classification will write to the Administrator's Office to tell me so. The same invitation is extended to anyone who can identify significant omissions, since some events of importance will certainly have been overlooked. The next edition of the Chronicle - and there will have to be a next edition if it is to remain a useful reference - will be the better for such feedback.
For those reading about the Territory for the first time, I hope that this Chronicle will convey some of the richness and excitement of this unique place, inspire you to read some more, and perhaps encourage you to come here and take a look for yourself if you have not been here before.
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