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Judgment: The Cases That Changed Australia takes audiences inside the High Court of Australia, where ordinary citizens challenge the laws that define the nation.

Across four landmark cases, personal battles become constitutional turning points.

The High Court is where Australia answers its hardest questions - the country’s most powerful legal minds confront cases that test the meaning of love, land, democracy and belonging.

Behind the bench, the Justices wrestle with principles that will shape the nation’s future. Before them stand citizens willing to risk everything to be heard.

Through intimate access, rich archive and carefully crafted drama-documentary storytelling, Judgment: The Cases That Changed Australia reveals not only the legal reasoning behind these decisions, but the courage, strategy and conviction that drove them.

The series shows how constitutional law is not abstract doctrine but lived experience - how arguments in a courtroom reverberate far beyond it. At its heart, it asks a simple but important question: how has the High Court shaped the kind of country Australia will be?

EPISODES

EPISODE 1: LOVE
Two men walk into a Hobart police station and confess to a crime carrying 21 years’ imprisonment, launching a series of High Court battles that will reshape marriage equality.

EPISODE 2: MABO
Terra Nullius: law or lie? Eddie Mabo and others challenge the legal fiction at the heart of colonisation and transform Australia’s understanding of land and sovereignty.

EPISODE 3: WE WILL DECIDE
When asylum seekers’ futures are argued before the High Court, questions of borders, power and national identity are laid bare.

EPISODE 4: VOTE
An unlikely hero takes on laws that silence citizens and reignites a democratic struggle older than the nation itself.