February – Kim Kilbey starts hosting Australia's Funniest Home Video Show, replacing long-time host Jo Beth Taylor.
12 February – British Swiss children's animated TV series Pingu makes its air on ABC for the very first time starting off with the first two episodes at 8:25am. It will later broadcast several more episodes on 24 March at 3:55pm and again in several months on weekdays at 10:25am, 9:25am, 7:25am, 8:25am and at 4:55pm.
16 February – The pink rabbit Mixy from The Ferals/Feral TV presents her very own children's weekday morning block on ABC starting from 7:30am to 10:00am.
16 February – British children's TV series Teletubbies debuts on ABC.
18 February – Australian talk show The Panel debuts on Network Ten.
24 February – Australian hospital drama series All Saints debuts on the Seven Network.
27 March – Darwin finally gets a second commercial television station when TND-34 opens, taking a Seven Network affiliation.
10 May – Australian drama series SeaChange debuts on ABC.
24 June – In the magic moment of Neighbours 13-year history, here was one now-infamous incident, Karl Kennedy has a massive fight with Susan Kennedy about his feud with serial bombshell Sarah Beaumont, and slaps him in the face very hard.
20 July - Hey Hey It's Saturday launches its Red Faces documentary series and spin offGonged But Not Forgotten, premieres at 8.30pm, on the Nine Network
31 July – The Wiggles' first self-titled television series, screens on the Seven Network.
22 August - British pop duo the Lighthouse Family perform on the Nine Network variety program Hey Hey It's Saturday.
5 October – Pokémon makes it debut on Network Ten.
12 October – Nine Network debuts a brand new talk show called Strassman presented by American ventriloquist and comedian David Strassman at 9:00pm.
22 November - The 1995 film Babe premieres on the Seven Network.
27 November – After 25 years, The Midday Show is retired by the Nine Network. A Current Affair draws with a final goodbye with Ray Martin in the hot-seat before retiring for the very last time. Martin was replaced by Mike Munro from December 1998. Martin returns to the program 5 years later. On the same night, Brian Naylor retires from reading Melbourne's National Nine News after 20 years; he is replaced by Peter Hitchener, who remains in this role as of today.
December – The remote Central & Eastern Australia markets are aggregated, with Imparja taking a Nine Network affiliation & Seven Central taking a joint Seven & Network Ten affiliation.
This is a list of programs which made their premiere on an Australian television network that had previously premiered on another Australian television network. The networks involved in the switch of allegiances are predominantly both free-to-air networks or both subscription television networks. Programs that have their free-to-air/subscription television premiere, after previously premiering on the opposite platform are not included. In some cases, programs may still air on the original television network. This occurs predominantly with programs shared between subscription television networks.
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This is a list of programs which made their premiere on Australian subscription television that had previously premiered on Australian free-to-air television. Programs may still air on the original free-to-air television network.
