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25 April, 2026
The storm, the church and the man who stayed
ON Christmas Eve, 1974, Terry Dunn wasn’t in Darwin when Cyclone Tracy hit. He had left earlier that night, invited down to Katherine by friends from a church he had only recently become part of. It wasn’t a big decision at the time — just somewhere to enjoy dinner on Christmas Eve. It may have saved his life. He had been living in a caravan at Shady Glen — a young man from Stawell travelling north in an old Kombi with a mate, picking up work where they could and getting used to Darwin.
Terry Dunn outside City Heart Church in Stawell — the church he first attended as a child and now leads after helping guide its rebuilding in recent years.
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