The Story of Australia

For over 50,000 years Aboriginal Australians meet challenges like the deadly marsupial lion. The colonists rebel against Governor William Bligh, a revolution with its roots in rum.

Wool drives the colonies' expansion. For some convicts Australia becomes a land of opportunity. Gold miners fight and die for their rights against the deadliest army in the world.

The Birth of the Bushranger; Nellie Melba launches Australia on the world's great stages; and in World War One, submarine AE2 changes the course of the Gallipoli campaign.

In WW1 nurse Alicia Kelly helps transform emergency medicine; Pompey Elliot breaks the stalemate of trench warfare. Charles Kingsford Smith is first to fly across the Pacific.

In WW2 Australians fight to defend their continent. In the peace an Australian-made car changes lives. Finding an iron ore mother-load changes the economy.

Desmond Duke fights cops for the right to dance. Surfer Midget Farrelly battles for freedom on the waves. Advertising genius John Singleton celebrates the Australian Voice.