From the Book - [Third edition], fully revised and updated.
Convict system and the growth of the first two colonies --
New Britannias: cities and colonies around the coast --
Explorers and squatters and aboriginals --
Economic development: 1850-1900 --
Democracy and nationalism: 1820-1900 --
Early federation, the Great War, the 1920s and '30s --
World War II and post-war changes to 1972 --
Politics, the economy, and culture, 1972-1996 --
Politics, the economy, and culture, since 1996 --
Appendix 1: Adaptation of the red kangaroo to the environment --
Appendix 2: Why boomerangs return --
Governors-general, governors, and premiers --
Chronology of major events --
