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 8 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in June 2026.
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Events That Changed Australia
Australia's journey to LGBTQ+ rights was a hard-fought battle. This episode explores the cultural shifts and key figures that tested our nation's "fair go" spirit.
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How Australia's richest man disrupted cricket - and amateur sport - in this country forever, and created professional sport as we know it.
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.