Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Timeline of Historical Events -- 1 The Nuts and Bolts of Modern Australia -- 2 Aboriginal Australia (c. 65,000 BCE-CE Eighteenth Century) -- 3 European Arrivals and Colonization (Seventeenth Century- 1830) -- 4 Riding on the Sheep's Back (1831- 1855) -- 5 Gold and the Long Boom (1856- 1890) -- 6 The Bubble Bursts and the Road to Federation (1891- 1900) -- 7 Advance Australia Fair (1901- 1919) -- 8 A Land Fit for Heroes and the Great Bust (1920- 1939) -- 9 War, Reconstruction, and the Cold War (1940- 1966) -- 10 Vietnam, People Power, and the Conservative Resurgence (1967- 1983) -- 11 Deconstruction and Multiculturalism (1984- 1996) -- 12 Mutual Obligation and the Conservative Revival (1997- 2001) -- 13 Advance Australia Where? (2001 and Beyond) -- Notable People in the History of Australia -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index.