How Cyclone Tracy survivors cope with the legacy of trauma, 50 years on | ABC NEWS

Alison Wallace knows about trauma — as a psychotherapist she works with it, and she has also lived it. On Christmas Eve of 1974, huddled under the kitchen table with her family and clinging to her puppy, Whisper, during Cyclone Tracy, then 10-year-old remembered repeating over and over, "please God make it stop, please God make it stop". This report was filed by Dianne King for ABC News Northern Territory.

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