Editing Darwin, Northern Territory (section)

===1970–present===
[[File:Town Hall ruins, Darwin, 2023 (01).jpg|thumb|right|Remains of Palmerston Town Hall, destroyed by [[Cyclone Tracy]]]]
On 25 December 1974, Darwin was struck by [[Cyclone Tracy]], which killed 71 people and destroyed over 70% of the city's buildings, including many old stone buildings such as the Palmerston Town Hall, which could not withstand the lateral forces the winds generated. After the disaster, 30,000 of the population of 46,000 were evacuated in the biggest airlift in Australia's history.<ref name="DCC" /> The town was rebuilt with newer materials and techniques during the late 1970s by the Darwin Reconstruction Commission, led by former [[Brisbane]] [[Lord mayor]] [[Clem Jones]]. A [[satellite city]] of [[Palmerston, Northern Territory|Palmerston]] was built {{convert|20|km|mi|abbr=on}} east of Darwin in the early 1980s.

On 17 September 2003, the [[Adelaide–Darwin railway]] was completed, with the opening of the Alice Springs–Darwin standard gauge line.