| Acknowledgements | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| 1788-1856: A Deep Undercurrent of Republicanism that will Someday Burst Forth and Astonish the World | |
| A T-shirt for Tom Paine | p. 13 |
| The Rights of Man | p. 14 |
| Wentworth Demands the Liberties of Englishmen | p. 16 |
| Man of the People | p. 17 |
| An Independent New South Wales - a Helpless Joey? | p. 17 |
| Australia in the colonial world of 1827 | p. 17 |
| Reformers Can Be Loyal to the Parent-Land | p. 19 |
| Cheap and Wise Government | p. 20 |
| Taxation by Representation | p. 21 |
| The Threat of Revolution | p. 22 |
| Not the Work of Emancipists | p. 23 |
| Note to the Tree of Liberty (A Song for the future) | p. 24 |
| Taxation in the Context of the Republican Tradition | p. 26 |
| The Queen does not Govern | p. 31 |
| Colonial Government, Internal and External | p. 32 |
| The Great Protest Meeting: Circular Quay 1849 | p. 33 |
| Britons Protest As Part of the British Tradition | p. 37 |
| Not Another America | p. 38 |
| The Anti-Transportation Movement | p. 39 |
| The Prerogative and the Anti-Transportation Crisis | p. 40 |
| Looking to America | p. 41 |
| War and Republicanism | p. 42 |
| Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia | p. 45 |
| The Constitution Debates 1853 | p. 47 |
| A Bunyip Aristocracy? | p. 48 |
| Not Ripe for Independence | p. 52 |
| Henry Parkes on Republicanism | p. 53 |
| There is Nothing Majestic in a Republic | p. 54 |
| The New Constitution (Br Britannicus) | p. 55 |
| A Glorious Republic | p. 55 |
| A Deep Undercurrent of Republicanism | p. 56 |
| Advance Australia | p. 57 |
| A Republic in Two Years? | p. 59 |
| Declaration of Independence | p. 60 |
| The 'Radical Language' of the Colonial Office | p. 62 |
| Colonial Loyalty | p. 62 |
| The Republic of Victoria | p. 63 |
| National Independence The Only Remedy | p. 64 |
| A Lesson in Political Definitions | p. 65 |
| 1856-1901: A Commonwealth for the British Race, a Commonwealth under the Crown | |
| Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution | p. 70 |
| Separate, Independent and Self-governing Republics | p. 71 |
| The Coming Republic | p. 72 |
| A Demonstration without Parallell in Australia | p. 76 |
| Henry Parkes Speaking from the Safety of an Upstairs Room | p. 78 |
| The Voice of the People | p. 79 |
| Insurrectionary War and the Desolation of a Thousand Households | p. 85 |
| If it ain't broke don't fix it! | p. 90 |
| Australia for the Australians | p. 91 |
| Lawson on Loyalty | p. 91 |
| A Song of the Republic | p. 93 |
| Lawson on Imperial Federation | p. 94 |
| The Centennial Year | p. 95 |
| A Neglected History | p. 97 |
| A Republic Without the Chinese | p. 99 |
| Royalty and Nobility | p. 100 |
| The Chief Justice of Queensland Votes for Australian Independence | p. 103 |
| Republicanism and Revolutions | p. 105 |
| Charters Towers' Republicanism | p. 107 |
| Manifesto of the Australasian Republican Association | p. 108 |
| Republicanism and Socialism | p. 109 |
| Independence Peacefully Achieved | p. 111 |
| The Namby-Pamby Republicans in the Macquarie Street Den | p. 114 |
| Governed by the People | p. 115 |
| Reasons for Republicanism | p. 116 |
| Some Tocsin Objections to the Federal Bill and Why You Should Vote Against it | p. 117 |
| No Representation Without Social Justice | p. 119 |
| A Letter from Hay | p. 120 |
| Federation Under the Crown? | p. 121 |
| National Australasian Convention, Sydney, 1891 | p. 123 |
| Why The Commonwealth of Australia? | p. 126 |
| Cardinal Moran on the Federal Convention | p. 128 |
| Colonial Parliaments of the 1890s | p. 130 |
| Dual Citizenship | p. 136 |
| Ambassador of Race | p. 142 |
| Cheering Crowd | p. 144 |
| Boosting a Bad Breakfast Food | p. 146 |
| Australian Labor and the British Connection | p. 147 |
| Letter to the Editor | p. 149 |
| Labor and Republicanism I | p. 150 |
| Labor and Republicanism II | p. 151 |
| Irish Demonstration | p. 154 |
| Who is a true citizen of Australia? | p. 155 |
| The ALP and the Domain Doings | p. 158 |
| The Real Disloyalty | p. 159 |
| It's Our Flag | p. 160 |
| Avenge the Insult to the Flag | p. 161 |
| A Menace to White Australia | p. 163 |
| Abolish Empire Day | p. 171 |
| The 'Democratic' Monarchy | p. 172 |
| The Function of the Crown | p. 175 |
| 2000 Faint in Big Crush | p. 176 |
| British Subject | p. 179 |
| The Lucky Country - a Republic? | p. 180 |
| Changing the Avant-Garde At Buckingham Palace | p. 183 |
| Kerr and the Consequences | p. 184 |
| The People and the Constitution | p. 185 |
| Censored: Franca Arena on the need for a Republic | p. 187 |
| Propaganda for the Republic | p. 193 |
| The Conservative Case for an Australian Republic | p. 195 |
| A Toast to the Postmodern Republic | p. 197 |
| Why We Need the Republic | p. 198 |
| Self respect for Australia | p. 201 |
| Starting the Process | p. 203 |
| An Australian Republic | p. 207 |
| The Way Forward | p. 216 |
| Excerpts from the Proceedings | p. 227 |
| An Indigenous Perspective | p. 252 |
| Yes/No Referendum '99, The case for voting 'No' | p. 255 |
| Yes/No Referendum '99, The case for voting 'Yes' | p. 261 |
| Safe, Workable and Accountable | p. 264 |
| No to an Elected President | p. 266 |
| There's No Need to Change a System that's Working Well | p. 267 |
| Ballot Papers for the Referendum | p. 271 |
| Results of the Referendum by State | p. 272 |
| Epilogue | p. 273 |
| Notes | p. 276 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 279 |
| Index | p. 283 |
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