Times Past: August 11, 1976

Maria Dennehy
August 11 2020 - 12:00am
The front page of The Canberra Times on August 11, 1976.
The front page of The Canberra Times on August 11, 1976.

A report about a dummy emergency services exercise dominated the front page of The Canberra Times on this day 44 years ago. The small township of Tharwa, south of Canberra, was the scene of a simulated armed siege and a police search of hills and bushland for a young girl.

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Maria Dennehy

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