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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And we are continuing our coverage of Cyclone Tracy fifty
years on. And my next guest is doctor Stephen Badley,
who was the doctor on Judy at the hospital when
Cyclone Tracy struck. He'd been an intern doctor for all
of twelve months, as I understand it, and he joins
me in the studio right now, good morning to.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You, stay, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's lovely to have you in the studio. Now tell
me what life was like in Darwin in the early
seventies and why did it appeal to you?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Right Well, I had come as a seventeen year old
from London to Melbourne where my parents have been here
for a couple of years, and I was put in
to school for a year in Melbourne and then spent
six years at medical school. And to be absolutely honest,
(00:53):
I want you to get as far away as possible
from Melbourne and as far away as possible appear to
be Darwin. So I applied to Darw into a man
called Charles Gourd, who was very important in the health
department then and ultimately became Deputy Lord Mayor Secretary of Health,
(01:15):
and he gave me the job and so I arrived
in Darwin from Melbourne, and I was absolutely gobsmacked by
this amazingly amazing city that seemed to float on empty
rum bottles and characters that you would never have met,
certainly in London and not in Melbourne. And I was
(01:41):
really entranced by Darwin at that time. And really, even
though I left after Cyclone Tracy, I left about three
months afterwards and went overseas to perform further training. The
one thing I wanted to do is to get back
(02:03):
to Darwin. And I had been packing up to go
to a job in New York when I bring a
friend in Darwin who said, oh you read read the
Australia the weekend, did you? They are advertising for someone
to set up an orthopedic surgical department. And so I've
(02:24):
been back here ever since.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So you chose Darwin over New York.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yes, I love.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's what an awesome I mean that part of the
story is awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And my son's say, thank god you did that, Dad,
otherwise we'll be talking with an American accent playing Bespats.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So true, whereas the life that you grow up with
in a place like Darwin.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Is so very different, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
And so relaxed and free, you know, so tell me
take me back to Christmas Eve in nineteen seventy four.
Where were you? What were you doing on that night?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Right? Well, I knew I was coming on duty at
about I come here. It was ten or eleven to
beyond duty all that night, and I'd been down to
the sailing club to have dinner. And we'd had cyclone
Selma six weeks before, which had been an absolute fizzit.
We'd all taped our windows and all prepared to die
(03:22):
and nothing had happened, so we all assumed it was
going to be very much the same again. But at
the sailing club I noticed where normally there are no
waves at all really in Darwin, on the beach in
front of the sailing club was bond eye type rollers,
really big surf coming in and the horizon was just
(03:45):
as black as and I realized this was probably going
to be something different. I really I didn't think much
further of it, and walking to go on duty from
the from the medical quarters where I lived to the
casualty department was a couple of hundred yards and I
(04:05):
had a bottle of champagne under each arm, anticipate it
was going to be a quiet night with the nursing stuff,
and I noticed that the wind coming behind me. If
I gave a few hop skipping a jump and jumped
in the air, the wind would blow me along right
a bit, and I realized that things weren't going to
(04:27):
be the same as Selma at that time.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, So where did you shelter or what happened for
you then? On that night?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, I was in the which was the main central
building of the hospital, which was a very structurally sound building,
and so there was no real danger to us, although
at one stage cracks started to appear in the concrete
wall and I noticed a bit of rain coming through
(04:54):
the wall, but essentially there was no suggestion that we
were going to blow away.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
And so what time of the day or when did
you start to realize that things had turned catastrophic outside?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Right probably after midnight, two midnight and one o'clock, I'm
not certain of the time. I remember walking out into
the foyer of the hospital and seeing the plate glass
windows sort of buckling, and then going going along the
corridor and to where I could see the old laboratories
which were brick, which was a brick building with a
(05:30):
corrugated iron roof just to one story boarding, and it
was interesting to just as I watched it through a
back door window. The roof of the laboratory didn't blow away.
It popped up in the air like a champagne cork. Wow.
And then the bricks just blew away against again, not
downwards but upwards, and the whole of the building disappeared
(05:53):
within thirty forty seconds.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It's just crazy stuff. I think for a lot of us,
you can't even sort of imagine what it's like to
see that unfolding. And then I would imagine as the
hours progressed, you have people starting to come into the hospital,
or how did it happen?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Well, no, no one could get into the hospital. I
had one patient who was there before it really got windy,
and that was one of the pediatric doctors, Ben day Ratney.
Hello Ben, if you listen. And he was a wonderful
pediatrician and he had a shocking migraine. So we gave
(06:33):
him some pethodine and maxelon and stuck him in a
room out the back and really ignored him for the
rest of the life. But it was very quiet, really
well I say quiet. It was extremely extremely noisy, but
quiet from a medical point of view, until during the eye,
(06:54):
which was relatively short to my memory, I can't remember
how long it was, but a couple of sailors came
in from the ship that had sunk in the harbor,
and they had crawled up through the wharf and were
cut with oysters and binacles, and they had sort of
quite severe cuts in their hands. So I thought I
(07:14):
was going to do wonderful work, and set about for
the next couple of hours to save these guys up.
And then when the wind fell again again, no further
patients arrived. And as soon as the whe wind fell
down to only only a high level, the back door
of casualty burst open and in came Alan Frederick Bromige,
(07:40):
the senior surgeon who lived nearby. And his first words
to me he was very keen. Orchid grow gray king gna.
The first thing he said to me, he said, badly,
the garden will never be the same. But he had
come because he knew, which I had didn't. He was
(08:01):
an old army surgeon. He knew what was going to
happen with the next hour or so, and it did.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
And so did you have to go out and find people?
Did they come in. What happened, I didn't have to.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Go and find poured him. They then poured in the
vast numbers and they were carrying injured people, some of
them on doors, detached doors, and it was just a
flood to a point where people couldn't There were two
entries to the casualty department. There was the back door
(08:36):
on the front door, and it was just better people
trying to get in and pushing their way in with
injured relatives, and there was panic. And I realized how
bad the panic was when one of the panickers was
wearing a police uniform, and I realized that social cohesion
(08:57):
had broken down.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And what types of injuries were you starting to see?
What were you starting to see coming right?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I mean the the injuries were horrendous. There were mostly
lacerations by flying objects, corrugated iron, bits of fibro. There
were people not totally but partially disemboweled. I can remember
one man with his eyeball hanging out on his cheek,
(09:27):
and there there were quite a number of people being
brought in who already did but there weren't enough stretches,
there weren't enough areas to treat them. So a lot
of people being treated on the floor, on the doors
they were brought in and lying on the floor which
was full of dirty, muddy, slightly bloody water. And Alan
(09:51):
Bromidge did amazing things that day. He didn't go and
operate at all. He was the most experienced surgeon, but
he had a a group of very talented, very competent
junior surgeons and registrars who he sent off to do
the surgery. He did the triaging, and so he would
(10:12):
prioritize who went to surgery immediately, who could go within
an hour, who could go to the ward. And I
think that day he would have saved many lives.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Doctor Bradley, is there a moment that you look back
on on that day where you thought to yourself, we
don't have control here. We have got so many patients
and there is so many injured people. You know, how
are we going to deal with this?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I think within that first hour when you just realized
you were being swamped and you wondered how you were
going to be able to cope, the medical people of
Dahl who were fantastic. Everybody came in. There were the
senior physicians who have dealt with that sort of thing
(11:03):
at all. There. You know, people dealt with heart failure
and things like that. They were down on their knees
in the in the mud and blood resuscitating people as well.
And I one of the things I was never good
at and never have been good at, is getting what's
called venus access putting in drips. It's always been one
(11:25):
of those things I've felt somewhat incompetent about it. But
there was one English doctor Jane Rowden as she is
now having married a doctor Ann, and she could put
drips into anybody, into the tiniest of veins, and she
(11:48):
again was able to assuscitate numerous people that day that
I would have been hopeless at.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It's incredible really to see the way that medical professionals
when you're faced with what is utter catastrophe, the way
that you just swing into action. And even how you
said that, you know that different staff coming in to
help out, and everybody just swinging into action and doing
(12:15):
what they needed to do. How many hours do you
think that you sort of worked for non stop to
try to help everybody.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Well, it was obviously the extremely high volume for that
first I suppose would have gone from say six o'clock
through past midday and then Alan Robb has sent a
number of us to do suiting and suiting wounds, and
(12:46):
I was with a nursing sister, Allison King, Hello Alison,
who was amazing as a nursing sister, and she and
I went and we just suitured people, dealt with wounds
all that morning until and probably until the late afternoon.
(13:09):
And by about six seven o'clock that night, most of
the severe injuries, I mean all of the severe injuries
had been dealt with, and sorry dealing with them all
minor things. But time sort of escapedure at that time.
I do have a memory of the doctors arriving from Sydney.
(13:31):
I think a Hercules came up. I don't know what
time that was. And really all the major surgery had
been done at that time, and I have a vivid
memory of the senior surgeon, somewhat pompous. I seem to
remember coming in and saying to Alan Brondge, okay, what
are we doing, and Alan saying, well, everything really seems
(13:53):
to have been done, but if you could help us
mop the flaws, that would really be good. It's one
of those things that sticks in my memory. The only
there were a couple of other things that stick in
my memory of the of the really active time, as
Alan saying that he said, Baddie, the only thing that's
missing is the sound of guns. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Well that's right, the injuries you're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, it was like a war zone to him that
it was the same sort of thing as the song. Yeah.
And the only time I saw him fazed was when
he was told that the senior anethis had been killed
on his way into the hospital.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I can't even imagine what that would have been like,
learning that one of your work colleagues yea, had passed
on their way trying to get into the.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Hospital doctor Macklin, who was an English an ethist, who
was a senior an ethist, and he lived a couple
of hundred yards from the hospital, and he, again, like Alan,
had tried to get in there as soon as possible,
and he really left a little bit too soon, was
hit by a piece of corrugated iron.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Apparently terrible stuff and shows the magnitude I think of
cyclone Tracy, as we go, as we you know, as
we head into the fiftieth commemorations, what's it like for
you when you look back at at those at that day,
in particular in the hospital, and when you look at
(15:25):
you know, the way in which Darwin has and the
way in which the people of Darwin have really sort
of stayed together, and the resilience of this place.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I think it has bound people together. There is a
it's like a code of honor. Were you here during
the cyclone?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And I know friends who weren't here during the cyclone
who are long term Territorians but who are away on
holda and they've never really quite forgiven themselves for not
having been here. But there was a sort of like
a band or brothers fellowship that did develop, and gladly
(16:12):
the it's some of it's been lost. Darwin certainly doesn't
have the same character that it had before then, but
it's changed in other ways and it's developed its own
new character, which is again, you know, I find just
compared to anywhere else I've been just so attractive as
(16:33):
a police slivia.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yep. Yeah, it is such a great place. Some Splash
has messaged in from Humpty Doo where he called in
to see if I could ask you were you the
doctor that lived in Packard Street?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
No, okay, because Splash had recently told us the story
about a lawn mower and a washing machine and a
doctor putting his whites into after he'd made a washing machine,
and we thought, oh, f you were that notorious doctor
as well, who he thought was an absolute hero been
able to do that. Now.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I lived in a building called po Q three Professional
Officers Quarters, which was on the hospital ground. Yeah right,
and that sort of got blown away or the top
floor got blown away.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah. Yeah, well, doctor Stephen Badly, I really appreciate you
joining me on the show this morning. I know it's
not easy for everybody to sort of recall the time
of cyclone Tracy, but I think the response from our
medical professionals and the response from everybody in that instance
is incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I think it was remarkable how everything did swing even
though these people, often you know, the doctors, came from
their own ruined houses and their own families to come
into the hospital. I think that was a fantastic thing.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, thank you so much for joining me this morning.
I absolutely thrilled to have you in the studio on
A big thanks to Dominica, your beautiful partner, who is
a good friend of ours as well, for bringing you
in thank you, thank you,
And we are continuing our coverage of Cyclone Tracy fifty
years on. And my next guest is doctor Stephen Badley,
who was the doctor on Judy at the hospital when
Cyclone Tracy struck. He'd been an intern doctor for all
of twelve months, as I understand it, and he joins
me in the studio right now, good morning to.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You, stay, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's lovely to have you in the studio. Now tell
me what life was like in Darwin in the early
seventies and why did it appeal to you?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Right Well, I had come as a seventeen year old
from London to Melbourne where my parents have been here
for a couple of years, and I was put in
to school for a year in Melbourne and then spent
six years at medical school. And to be absolutely honest,
(00:53):
I want you to get as far away as possible
from Melbourne and as far away as possible appear to
be Darwin. So I applied to Darw into a man
called Charles Gourd, who was very important in the health
department then and ultimately became Deputy Lord Mayor Secretary of Health,
(01:15):
and he gave me the job and so I arrived
in Darwin from Melbourne, and I was absolutely gobsmacked by
this amazingly amazing city that seemed to float on empty
rum bottles and characters that you would never have met,
certainly in London and not in Melbourne. And I was
(01:41):
really entranced by Darwin at that time. And really, even
though I left after Cyclone Tracy, I left about three
months afterwards and went overseas to perform further training. The
one thing I wanted to do is to get back
(02:03):
to Darwin. And I had been packing up to go
to a job in New York when I bring a
friend in Darwin who said, oh you read read the
Australia the weekend, did you? They are advertising for someone
to set up an orthopedic surgical department. And so I've
(02:24):
been back here ever since.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So you chose Darwin over New York.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yes, I love.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's what an awesome I mean that part of the
story is awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And my son's say, thank god you did that, Dad,
otherwise we'll be talking with an American accent playing Bespats.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So true, whereas the life that you grow up with
in a place like Darwin.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Is so very different, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
And so relaxed and free, you know, so tell me
take me back to Christmas Eve in nineteen seventy four.
Where were you? What were you doing on that night?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Right? Well, I knew I was coming on duty at
about I come here. It was ten or eleven to
beyond duty all that night, and I'd been down to
the sailing club to have dinner. And we'd had cyclone
Selma six weeks before, which had been an absolute fizzit.
We'd all taped our windows and all prepared to die
(03:22):
and nothing had happened, so we all assumed it was
going to be very much the same again. But at
the sailing club I noticed where normally there are no
waves at all really in Darwin, on the beach in
front of the sailing club was bond eye type rollers,
really big surf coming in and the horizon was just
(03:45):
as black as and I realized this was probably going
to be something different. I really I didn't think much
further of it, and walking to go on duty from
the from the medical quarters where I lived to the
casualty department was a couple of hundred yards and I
(04:05):
had a bottle of champagne under each arm, anticipate it
was going to be a quiet night with the nursing stuff,
and I noticed that the wind coming behind me. If
I gave a few hop skipping a jump and jumped
in the air, the wind would blow me along right
a bit, and I realized that things weren't going to
(04:27):
be the same as Selma at that time.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, So where did you shelter or what happened for
you then? On that night?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, I was in the which was the main central
building of the hospital, which was a very structurally sound building,
and so there was no real danger to us, although
at one stage cracks started to appear in the concrete
wall and I noticed a bit of rain coming through
(04:54):
the wall, but essentially there was no suggestion that we
were going to blow away.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
And so what time of the day or when did
you start to realize that things had turned catastrophic outside?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Right probably after midnight, two midnight and one o'clock, I'm
not certain of the time. I remember walking out into
the foyer of the hospital and seeing the plate glass
windows sort of buckling, and then going going along the
corridor and to where I could see the old laboratories
which were brick, which was a brick building with a
(05:30):
corrugated iron roof just to one story boarding, and it
was interesting to just as I watched it through a
back door window. The roof of the laboratory didn't blow away.
It popped up in the air like a champagne cork. Wow.
And then the bricks just blew away against again, not
downwards but upwards, and the whole of the building disappeared
(05:53):
within thirty forty seconds.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It's just crazy stuff. I think for a lot of us,
you can't even sort of imagine what it's like to
see that unfolding. And then I would imagine as the
hours progressed, you have people starting to come into the hospital,
or how did it happen?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Well, no, no one could get into the hospital. I
had one patient who was there before it really got windy,
and that was one of the pediatric doctors, Ben day Ratney.
Hello Ben, if you listen. And he was a wonderful
pediatrician and he had a shocking migraine. So we gave
(06:33):
him some pethodine and maxelon and stuck him in a
room out the back and really ignored him for the
rest of the life. But it was very quiet, really
well I say quiet. It was extremely extremely noisy, but
quiet from a medical point of view, until during the eye,
(06:54):
which was relatively short to my memory, I can't remember
how long it was, but a couple of sailors came
in from the ship that had sunk in the harbor,
and they had crawled up through the wharf and were
cut with oysters and binacles, and they had sort of
quite severe cuts in their hands. So I thought I
(07:14):
was going to do wonderful work, and set about for
the next couple of hours to save these guys up.
And then when the wind fell again again, no further
patients arrived. And as soon as the whe wind fell
down to only only a high level, the back door
of casualty burst open and in came Alan Frederick Bromige,
(07:40):
the senior surgeon who lived nearby. And his first words
to me he was very keen. Orchid grow gray king gna.
The first thing he said to me, he said, badly,
the garden will never be the same. But he had
come because he knew, which I had didn't. He was
(08:01):
an old army surgeon. He knew what was going to
happen with the next hour or so, and it did.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
And so did you have to go out and find people?
Did they come in. What happened, I didn't have to.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Go and find poured him. They then poured in the
vast numbers and they were carrying injured people, some of
them on doors, detached doors, and it was just a
flood to a point where people couldn't There were two
entries to the casualty department. There was the back door
(08:36):
on the front door, and it was just better people
trying to get in and pushing their way in with
injured relatives, and there was panic. And I realized how
bad the panic was when one of the panickers was
wearing a police uniform, and I realized that social cohesion
(08:57):
had broken down.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And what types of injuries were you starting to see?
What were you starting to see coming right?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I mean the the injuries were horrendous. There were mostly
lacerations by flying objects, corrugated iron, bits of fibro. There
were people not totally but partially disemboweled. I can remember
one man with his eyeball hanging out on his cheek,
(09:27):
and there there were quite a number of people being
brought in who already did but there weren't enough stretches,
there weren't enough areas to treat them. So a lot
of people being treated on the floor, on the doors
they were brought in and lying on the floor which
was full of dirty, muddy, slightly bloody water. And Alan
(09:51):
Bromidge did amazing things that day. He didn't go and
operate at all. He was the most experienced surgeon, but
he had a a group of very talented, very competent
junior surgeons and registrars who he sent off to do
the surgery. He did the triaging, and so he would
(10:12):
prioritize who went to surgery immediately, who could go within
an hour, who could go to the ward. And I
think that day he would have saved many lives.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Doctor Bradley, is there a moment that you look back
on on that day where you thought to yourself, we
don't have control here. We have got so many patients
and there is so many injured people. You know, how
are we going to deal with this?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I think within that first hour when you just realized
you were being swamped and you wondered how you were
going to be able to cope, the medical people of
Dahl who were fantastic. Everybody came in. There were the
senior physicians who have dealt with that sort of thing
(11:03):
at all. There. You know, people dealt with heart failure
and things like that. They were down on their knees
in the in the mud and blood resuscitating people as well.
And I one of the things I was never good
at and never have been good at, is getting what's
called venus access putting in drips. It's always been one
(11:25):
of those things I've felt somewhat incompetent about it. But
there was one English doctor Jane Rowden as she is
now having married a doctor Ann, and she could put
drips into anybody, into the tiniest of veins, and she
(11:48):
again was able to assuscitate numerous people that day that
I would have been hopeless at.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It's incredible really to see the way that medical professionals
when you're faced with what is utter catastrophe, the way
that you just swing into action. And even how you
said that, you know that different staff coming in to
help out, and everybody just swinging into action and doing
(12:15):
what they needed to do. How many hours do you
think that you sort of worked for non stop to
try to help everybody.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Well, it was obviously the extremely high volume for that
first I suppose would have gone from say six o'clock
through past midday and then Alan Robb has sent a
number of us to do suiting and suiting wounds, and
(12:46):
I was with a nursing sister, Allison King, Hello Alison,
who was amazing as a nursing sister, and she and
I went and we just suitured people, dealt with wounds
all that morning until and probably until the late afternoon.
(13:09):
And by about six seven o'clock that night, most of
the severe injuries, I mean all of the severe injuries
had been dealt with, and sorry dealing with them all
minor things. But time sort of escapedure at that time.
I do have a memory of the doctors arriving from Sydney.
(13:31):
I think a Hercules came up. I don't know what
time that was. And really all the major surgery had
been done at that time, and I have a vivid
memory of the senior surgeon, somewhat pompous. I seem to
remember coming in and saying to Alan Brondge, okay, what
are we doing, and Alan saying, well, everything really seems
(13:53):
to have been done, but if you could help us
mop the flaws, that would really be good. It's one
of those things that sticks in my memory. The only
there were a couple of other things that stick in
my memory of the of the really active time, as
Alan saying that he said, Baddie, the only thing that's
missing is the sound of guns. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Well that's right, the injuries you're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, it was like a war zone to him that
it was the same sort of thing as the song. Yeah.
And the only time I saw him fazed was when
he was told that the senior anethis had been killed
on his way into the hospital.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I can't even imagine what that would have been like,
learning that one of your work colleagues yea, had passed
on their way trying to get into the.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Hospital doctor Macklin, who was an English an ethist, who
was a senior an ethist, and he lived a couple
of hundred yards from the hospital, and he, again, like Alan,
had tried to get in there as soon as possible,
and he really left a little bit too soon, was
hit by a piece of corrugated iron.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Apparently terrible stuff and shows the magnitude I think of
cyclone Tracy, as we go, as we you know, as
we head into the fiftieth commemorations, what's it like for
you when you look back at at those at that day,
in particular in the hospital, and when you look at
(15:25):
you know, the way in which Darwin has and the
way in which the people of Darwin have really sort
of stayed together, and the resilience of this place.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I think it has bound people together. There is a
it's like a code of honor. Were you here during
the cyclone?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And I know friends who weren't here during the cyclone
who are long term Territorians but who are away on
holda and they've never really quite forgiven themselves for not
having been here. But there was a sort of like
a band or brothers fellowship that did develop, and gladly
(16:12):
the it's some of it's been lost. Darwin certainly doesn't
have the same character that it had before then, but
it's changed in other ways and it's developed its own
new character, which is again, you know, I find just
compared to anywhere else I've been just so attractive as
(16:33):
a police slivia.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yep. Yeah, it is such a great place. Some Splash
has messaged in from Humpty Doo where he called in
to see if I could ask you were you the
doctor that lived in Packard Street?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
No, okay, because Splash had recently told us the story
about a lawn mower and a washing machine and a
doctor putting his whites into after he'd made a washing machine,
and we thought, oh, f you were that notorious doctor
as well, who he thought was an absolute hero been
able to do that. Now.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I lived in a building called po Q three Professional
Officers Quarters, which was on the hospital ground. Yeah right,
and that sort of got blown away or the top
floor got blown away.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah. Yeah, well, doctor Stephen Badly, I really appreciate you
joining me on the show this morning. I know it's
not easy for everybody to sort of recall the time
of cyclone Tracy, but I think the response from our
medical professionals and the response from everybody in that instance
is incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I think it was remarkable how everything did swing even
though these people, often you know, the doctors, came from
their own ruined houses and their own families to come
into the hospital. I think that was a fantastic thing.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, thank you so much for joining me this morning.
I absolutely thrilled to have you in the studio on
A big thanks to Dominica, your beautiful partner, who is
a good friend of ours as well, for bringing you
in thank you, thank you,
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