Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Thomas Keneally -- About the editors -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- General introduction / Nicholas Jose -- Aboriginal literature / Anita Heiss and Peter Minter -- Literature to 1900 / Elizabeth Webby -- Literature 1900-1950 / Nicole Moore -- Fiction and drama from 1950 / Kerryn Goldsworthy -- Poetry and non-fiction from 1950 / David McCooey -- from: Journal of a first fleet surgeon / George Worgan (1757-1838) -- from: Complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson / Watkin Tench (1758-1833) -- Letter to Mr Philips, Lord Sydney's steward / Bennelong (c1764-1813) -- Letter to Brigid Kingdon / Elizabeth Macarthur (1766-1850) -- from: Voyage to Terra Australis / Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) -- Kangaroo / Barron Field (1786-1846) -- Native's lament / Anonymous -- from: Hermit in Van Diemen's land / Henry Savery (1791-1842) -- Swan river eclogue / Anonymous -- Jim Jones at Botany Bay / Anonymous -- from: Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia / Charles Sturt (1795-1969) -- Aboriginal mother (from Myall's Creek) / Eliza Dunlop (1796-1880) -- Convict's tour to hell / Frank the poet (c 1810-c 1861) -- Moreton Bay / Anonymous -- Letter to her father / Eliza Brown (1810-1896) -- from: Notes and sketches of New South Wales / Louisa Anne Meredith (1812-1895) -- Beautiful squatter -- Mid-summer noon in the Austrailian Forest -- Confession -- Consummation / Charles Harpur (1813-1868) -- Letter to colonial secretary, Van Diemen's land / Mary Ann Arthur (c 1819-1871) -- Letter to colonial secretary, Van Diemen's land / Walter George Arthur (c 1820-1861) -- from: Lady's visit to the gold diggings of Australia in 1852-1853 / Ellen Clacy (c 1820-?) …”