The main purpose of this paper is to study the co-movement between emerging market equity returns and Australian equity returns by using an empirical model. A market volume and absolute price change was used to identify the days when there was a significant shock in the Australian market as well as the other major equity markets. Holding the effects of major markets constant, there is sufficient evidence that Australian shocks get transmitted to emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, Europe, and Africa. Among the regional groups, European market returns exhibit the highest level of reaction to shocks in Australia, with some of the Asian markets also showing similar results. Latin American stocks exhibit the least amount of reaction to Australian shocks.