Events That Changed Australia
Events That Changed Australia is a TV show on Channel 9. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 7 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in May 2026.
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Events That Changed Australia
How Australia's richest man disrupted cricket - and amateur sport - in this country forever, and created professional sport as we know it.
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Melbourne's gangland wars turned suburbs into battlegrounds of executions. Figures like Carl Williams shifted the Aussie view of criminals from larrikins to cold-blooded killers.
Our national game used to be available to only half of the population - until women became an unstoppable force on the Australian sporting field.
How a muscle-bound bushman and one crazy idea for a tourism advertisement made our nation what it is today.
The Bali bombings and the Lindt Cafe siege marked the arrival of terror in Australia. While 9/11 felt distant, these events shattered the nation's sense of security.
The 2009 Black Saturday fires claimed 173 lives, Victoria's worst peacetime loss. The tragedy sparked a Royal Commission that abolished the controversial "Stay or Go" policy.
Sydney's Cronulla Beach became the site of an organised, race-driven riot in December 2005. The violence lasted for days, forcing a national reckoning on race and identity.