| Julie Evans and Tessa Fluence | Securing the Settler Polity: Martial Law and the Aboriginal Peoples of Van Diemen's Land | 1 |
| Angela Woollacott | Manly Authority, Employing Non-White Labour, and Frontier Violence 1830s–1860s | 23 |
| Jessie Mitchell | 'great difficulty in knowing where the frontier ceases': Violence, governance, and the spectre of India in early Queensland | 43 |
| Samuel Furphy | The Trial of Warri: Aboriginal Protection and Settler Self Government in Colonial Victoria | 63 |
| Leigh Boucher | Race, Rights and the Re-forming Settler Polity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Victoria | 83 |
| Robert Foster | 'His Majesty's most gracious and benevolent intentions': South Australia's Foundation, the Idea of 'Difference', and Aboriginal Rights | 105 |
| Ann Curthoys and Jeremy Martens | Serious Collisions: Settlers, Indigenous People, and Imperial Policy in Western Australia and Natal | 121 |
| Ann Genovese | Narratives of Authority: Translating Yougarla | 145 |
| REFEREED ARTICLES (MISCELLANEOUS) | |
| Jill Roe | Revisiting the frontier, from Miles Franklin's 'Brindabella' to South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. The 2012 Russel Ward Annual Lecture | 169 |
| David Stoneman | J. D. Lang, Scottish Rights and the Introduction of the 1836 Church Act | 183 |
| Perry McIntyre | The Desire for a Wife: Convict Family Reunion and Remarriage in Colonial New South Wales | 202 |
| BOOK REVIEWS | | 223 |
