A New Australia (Episode 5)

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. The Snowy Mountains scheme powers a new Australia and its migrant builders alter the face of the country. The Sydney Opera House reshapes the nation’s identity. After a killer storm Ella Stack transforms how Australians live in the North.

45,000 YEARS AGO-1836 Aboriginal Australians thrive and leave their marks on every corner on the driest, inhabited continent on Earth for at least 50,000 years. They meet challenges unique to…

1837-1869: The Convict that Saves Adelaide, Caroline Chisholm Mother of the Nation, Gold Fever, Wiring Australia to the World, Inventing Australia’s Own Football, the Eureka Rebellion and the Seeds…

1862 – 1915: The Birth of the Bushranger and Australia’s love affair with rogues, Opera star Nellie Melba launches Australia on the world’s great stages, The Fight for a Fair Go, and in World War One…

In WW1 nurse Alicia Kelly helps transform emergency medicine at the front line; 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. The Snowy Mountains scheme powers a new…

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. Elaine Moir saves hundreds…