| Angus R. McGillivery | Reading a Sealed Agricultural Past: Hand Tools and Implements of Husbandry, Mixed Farming and a Colonial Yeomanry in the Antipodes | 1 |
| David Dunstan & Julie McIntyre | Wine, olives, silk and fruits: The Mediterranean plant complex and agrarian visions for a 'practical economic future' in colonial Australia | 29 |
| Frank Bongiorno | Sex, Empire and Sovereignty: Making Australian Sexuality | 51 |
| Tim Castle | 'Time to reflect': Earl Bathurst and the origins of the New South Wales Executive Council | 73 |
| Steven Anderson & Paul Sendziuk | Hang the Convicts: Capital Punishment and the Reaffirmation of South Australia's Foundation Principles | 93 |
| Liz Rushen | Marriage Options for Immigrant Women in Colonial Australia in the 1830s | 111 |
| Dmytro Ostapenko | Establishing themselves on the new land: Port Phillip crop-growers in the 1840s | 127 |
| Margaret Bowman | Writers and Readers: Melbourne's Bohemians and its Athenaeum | 147 |
| Peter Davies & Susan Lawrence | A 'mere thread of land': Water races, gold mining and water law in colonial Victoria | 165 |
| DISCUSSION FORUM: 'The Crossing': Bicentennial Reflections on the 1813 Expedition Across the Blue Mountains | |
| Richard Waterhouse | Commemoration, Celebration and 'the Crossing' | 186 |
| Grace Karskens | The Blue Mountains Crossings: New Histories from the Old Legends | 197 |
| Martin Thomas | Myths of Discovery and Settler Identity: Probing the 'first' Crossing of the Blue Mountains after 200 years | 226 |
| David Andrew Roberts | Beyond 'the Crossing': The Restless Frontier at Bathurst in the 1820s | 244 |
| Book Reviews | | 260 |
