Events That Changed Australia

Our national game used to be available to only half of the population - until women became an unstoppable force on the Australian sporting field.

Melbourne's gangland wars turned ordinary suburbs into battlegrounds. With over thirty murders, figures like Carl Williams shifted the Aussie view of criminals from larrikins to

How Australia’s richest man disrupted cricket - and amateur sport - in this country forever, and created professional sport as we know it.

From the riots that inspired mardi gras, to homophobia in the 1980s, celebrities coming out in the 1990s and monumental stand-offs in the most powerful corridors of power just last decade, the 2017 vote for marriage equality in Australia is the story of a changing nation. From a place where being gay was still against the law, to one where everyone is now equal, this episode features perspectives from all sides of the Same Sex Marriage issue, and uses the window of popular culture to look at the key events and characters that tested our ‘fair go’ nation.