Year in a Minute: 2009

SBS celebrating 50 Years. This is a Year in a Minute 2009.

A Country Fire Authority (CFA) fire truck is pictured in front of flames while fighting a bushfire at the Bunyip State Forest near the township of Tonimbuk, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009. Authorities have issued urgent fire warnings to towns near a bushfire burning out of control east of Melbourne. (AAP Image/Andrew Brownbill) NO ARCHIVING, INTL OUT Credit: ANDREW BROWNBILL/AAPIMAGE

Black Saturday fires leave 173 dead in rural Victoria

Gunmen attack the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan.

Tony Abbott wrestles the Liberal leadership away from Malcolm Turnbull.

Tim Winton’s Breath fills the literary air.

As airborne pandemic Swine flu gets its visa stamped entering Australia after killing over a 150 in Mexico.

Barack Obama becomes the First African American US President and at fifty,

Pop Megastar Michael Jackson takes his last moon walk straight to heaven.