Code 1: Minute by Minute

Code 1: Minute By Minute breaks down some of the biggest and most tragic news events to ever impact Australians. This episode features the response to the Bourke Street Mall Tragedy.

In 2016, Melbourne experienced the world's largest epidemic thunderstorm asthma event which killed 10 Australians.

On 23 March 2007 a collision occurred in Melbourne's Burnley Tunnel would affect the psyche of the state. The crash involved multiple trucks and cars setting off an explosion hot enough to melt cars.

A group of friends boarded a small boat on Sydney Harbour which would change their lives forever. Six of them were killed when their boat collided with a fishing boat in the early hours of the morning.

One of Australia's worst mass murders happened in a quiet suburban nursing home. A nurse caught stealing prescription drugs decided to burn the nursing home down in the middle of the night.

On August 13, 2019 computer engineer Mert Ney went on a rampage in Sydney's CBD. He stabbed to death 24-year-old escort Michaela Dunn, and in the streets a passer-by in the back.

In November 2018, a 30-year-old terrorist armed with a knife went on a rampage in Bourke Street stabbing three people. Multiple first responders recount their experiences on that tragic day.

A father of three and his girlfriend died when their seaplane crashed into Perth's Swan River in front of 60,000 spectators. Families watched in horror as the plane nose-diving into the water.