(Source: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery) This summer, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) presents a moving exhibition commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of one of the state's most catastrophic natural disasters. Opened today, One Hell of an Inferno: The 1967 Tasmanian Bushfires tells the story of the fires that engulfed south-eastern Tasmania on 7 February 1967, how they occurred, their impact on people, communities and the environment, and why they could happen again Black Tuesday, as the day came to be known, saw 110 fires join together into an inferno that killed 64 people and injured 900 others,...
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