Code 1: Minute by Minute

The Childers Palace Backpacker Hostel in Queensland was accommodation for 88 young world travellers when itinerant fruit picker Robert Paul Long deliberately set fire to the place.

In 2002 Bali nightclubs were bombed killing 88 Australians. Three years later terrorists bombed restaurants killing another 20 people. Stories of survival told by first responders & eyewitnesses.

A country passenger train travelling towards Melbourne was struck by a semi-trailer that had been travelling at 100 kilometres per hour at 1:40pm on the 5th June 2007. First hand accounts from emergency workers and survivors.

Shortly after the commencement of the annual Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, a 'super cell' storm stirred up massive seas in the Bass Strait. Thirty aircraft took part in the rescue operation.