- Editorial: Mr Balding’s Spam
- Australia’s Onshore Protection – For Whom and at What Cost? – Anne Henderson
- John Curtin – Another View – Stephen Mills
- An “A” for Alienation Peter Conrad’s Boyer Lectures – Gerard Henderson
- Taiwan and Jiang Jinggou’s Legacy – Ted Rule
- The ABC Launches The PNG History Wars – Geoffrey Luck
- Documentation Tom Uren, Denial and Pol Pot
- Book Reviews: Curtin’s Gift – reviewed by Stephen Mills, and John McConnell looks at the Labor Split and the Howard years
- Review of the Reviewers – Stephen Matchett
- Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch takes on Carmel Travers, Matt Price, Malcolm Farr, Laura Tingle, Andrew Jaspan and Robert Manne (not again?)