Year in a Minute: 2013

One more operatic turn of the Labor knife, Rudd defeats Gillard who falls on her sword. But the electorate has its say, putting Tony Abbott into the Lodge.

Analogue TV is switched off.

Edward Snowden reveals Australia spied on the Indonesian President.

Egyptian security kill over eight hundred raiding protest camps in Cairo.

Nelson Mandela dies at 95, as Oscar Pistorius is charged with premeditated murder of his girlfriend.

And a 7-year-old boy lost in bushland, claimed a kangaroo kept him warm throughout the night.