| Grace Karskens and Richard Waterhouse | 'Too sacred to be taken away': Property, Liberty, Tyranny and the 'Rum Rebellion' | 1 |
| Diane Sylvester | Governor Lachlan Macquarie, Sir James Mackintosh and the Scottish Enlightenment | 23 |
| Anne Coote | 'This is the people's golden day': Anniversary Day Press Coverage and National Consciousness in New South Wales | 39 |
| Jessie Mitchell | Alpacas in Colonial Australia: Acclimatisation, Evolution and Empire | 55 |
| Julia Clark | A Question of Attribution: Port Arthur's Convict Portraits | 77 |
| Alister Bowen | The Central Role of Chinese People in Australia's Colonial Fishing Industry | 97 |
| Mark Lauchs | The Return of Manhood Suffrage to Queensland, 1863–1872 | 119 |
| Phil Griffiths | From Humiliation to Triumph: Sir Henry Parkes, the Squatters and the Anti-Chinese Movement, 1877–1878 | 143 |
| SPECIAL FEATURE | |
| Babette Smith | Legend and Reality: The Genius of Russel Ward. The 2009 Russel Ward Annual Lecture. | 171 |
| NOTES | |
| Janette Pelosi | Record-keeping in the Age of Governor Macquarie | 216 |
| Lyndon Megarrity | Manuscripts, private papers, government files: The romance of the white glove versus the cult of efficiency | 223 |
| Kate Matthew | The Search for Australia's Missing Governesses | 227 |
| David A. Roberts | Bruce Arthur Mitchell (1935–2009) | 230 |
