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‘A lightning rod of dissent’: Kon Vatskalis’s Cyclone Tracy memorial legacy revisited

‘A lightning rod of dissent’: Kon Vatskalis’s Cyclone Tracy memorial legacy revisited

Kon Vatskalis’s eight-year reign as Darwin Lord Mayor ended this week in a third-place finish, while his legacy will live on in controversy, defined by the selection of the kinetic sculpture called ‘Coriolis’ as a Cyclone Tracy memorial that he later claimed was not a memorial, leading to a tangled story involving political cover-ups and ratepayer-funded threats of legal action against members of the public for trying to find answers.

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