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Darwin - No Place Like Home: Australia's Northern Capital in the 1950s through a Social History of Housing

Name: Darwin - No Place Like Home: Australia's Northern Capital in the 1950s through a Social History of Housing. Mickey DEWAR 2010.
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DEWAR, Mickey, 2010

***Winner of the 2011 Chief Minister’s History Book Award***

The book examines the evolution of the Darwin community through its private and public housing schemes. Dr Dewar also addresses the housing reconstruction of Darwin after the cyclones of 1897, 1937 and Cyclone Tracy in 1974. The book also details the scramble for housing after the bombing of Darwin in WW2.

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