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It is the capital city of the Northern Territory and Australia’s northernmost city. Settlement was attempted in the early 1800s by the English, but it was the South Australian government who set up a colony there in 1869.

Darwin was originally named Palmerston after the British Prime Minister. However, as most people called the town ‘Darwin’ after the name of the port which was so named following the visit of the naturalist, Charles Darwin in 1839, it was officially changed in 1911 when the South Australian government handed control of the Northern Territory over to the Federal government.

Throughout the novel Peter Goldsworthy evokes images of Darwin’s culture and climate. Paul’s father describes it as ‘A city of booze, blow, and blasphemy’ (p. 9b), Paul recounts his first impressions of the flora, ‘I had never seen such greenness: an unnatural greenness.’ (p. 10a) where ‘Everything grew larger than life’. (p. 11a).

Darwin has what is known as a monsoonal climate meaning that there are distinct wet and dry seasons. In winter there is very little rain and the average temperature is app

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On the Night of the Long Knives 30 June 1934, Hitler purged the party of his perceived enemies, including Ernst Röhm whom Hitler believed had turned against him. Dachau near Munich, Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald are three of the most well known.

1944 May - Hungarian Jews are deported to Auschwitz. Water, sewerage and power were all cut. Mass shooting begin in the Soviet Union by German troops.

Austrian Jews, communists and intellectuals were persecuted by the Nazis during WW II.

The first concentration camps were set up in Germany in early 1933 to deal with political prisoners. The Aryan (or super) race was thought to dominate.

1934 June - The Night of the Long Knives-Hitler’s perceived enemies within the Nazi Party are murdered on his orders. However, as Germany invaded more countries, the number of Jews increased so much so that banishment became impractical. New regulations were introduced so that buildings would now be able to withstand another cyclone of the same intensity.

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