1: Smith, Vivian, ‘Twenty Years of Sydney’, Southerly, no. 2, 1977, p. 210
2: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Story of an Underground Paper’ – rewritten from articles from various sources at the time
3: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Wendy Bacon v. The Commonwealth’ – adapted from ‘One all draw and forty to go’, Bulletin, 13.2.71, p. 21
4: Bacon, Wendy, ‘An Editor in Jail’ – adapted and abridged from ‘Getting High in Jail is Talking Shit’, Thor, 1971, no number, p. 9; and ‘Eight Days Hard’, Mejane, March 1971, no. 1, pp. 6–7
5: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Inspector and the Prince: a profile of Darcy Waters’ – adapted from ‘Prince of Bohemia’, Bulletin, 14.2.71, p. 21
6: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Myth of the Male Orgasm’ – from Sex, a Thor pamphlet, University of New South Wales, 1971, pp. 8–10
7: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Yes, if asked in a survey I would say I’m a liberated lady’ – adapted from Bulletin, 3.6.72, pp. 46–7
8: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Defenders of Sexiness and Violence’ – adapted from Bulletin, 23.6.73, p. 44
9: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘For the Course, for the Strike – and for the Party’ – adapted from ‘Good Party Men’, Bulletin, 4.8.73, p. 41
10: Brennan, Richard, ‘A Film Producer Comes Out’ – abridged, from Nation Review, May 30–June 5 1975, vol. 5, no. 33, pp. 16–17
11: Bartlett, Norman, ‘Où Est Le Porno?’ – abridged from Meanjin Quarterly, no. 1; 1971, pp. 102–8
12: Murray, Les, ‘Sidere Mens Eadem Mutato’ – from The Vernacular Republic, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1976, pp. 115–19
13: Jennings, Kate, ‘Couples’ – from Come to Me My Melancholy Baby, Outback Press, Melbourne, 1975
14: Anonymous, ‘Pat Yank’ – from Tracks, no. 12, 1971, p. 5
15: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘An Anti-Conscriptionist, the Night before He Went to Jail’ – unpublished, 1972
16: Roberts, Nigel, ‘After/the Moratorium Reading’ – from In Casablanca for the Waters, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1977, p. 28
17: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘I Say Whitlam Doesn’t Matter’ – adapted from an article in Digger, Melbourne, 2–16 December 1972, no. 8, p. 7
18: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Shades of the Electorate’ – adapted from ‘Macarthur Baby’, Bulletin, 25.11:72, pp. 25–7
19: Oakes, Laurie,& Solomon, David, ‘The Moment of Victory, 1972’ – from The Making of an Australian Prime Minister, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1973, pp. 7–11
20: Horne, Donald, ‘The Meaning of Defeat’ – abridged from Death of the Lucky Country, Penguin Books, Ringwood, 1976, pp. 9–12, 17
21: Clark, Manning, ‘The Violent Option’ – extract from speech given in Sydney Town Hall on 20 September 1976, published in Myfanwy Gollan, ed., Kerr and the Consequences, Widescope, Melbourne, 1977, pp. 29–30
22: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Donald Horne – profile of a republican’ – adapted from ‘The Honourable Art of Stirring the Establishment’, Pol, winter 1976, pp. 67–8
23: Pi O, ‘The Mother’ – from Panash, Collective Effort Press, Melbourne, 1978, p. 146 (his the symbol of the international anarchist movement: no copyright on this poem)
24: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘A Subject of Derision’ – adapted from ‘Le Ghetto scene, baby’, Bulletin, 30.8.75, pp. 52–3
25: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Balmain is Cannery Row’ – adapted, Bulletin, 18.9.76, p. 63
26: Jordens, Ann–Mari, ‘The Stenhouse Circle and Balmain, 1851–72’ – slightly abridged, from ‘The Stenhouse Circle: Literary Life in Mid Nineteenth Century Sydney, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1979, pp. 51–6
27: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Breaking Literary Decorum’ – unpublished
28: Viidikas, Vicki, ‘Listening Backwards’ – from Knäbel, Wild &Woolley, Sydney, 1978, pp. 56–7
29: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Great Pub Crawls’ – adapted from ‘Two Great Pub Crawls’, Bulletin, 21.8.71, pp. 42–3
30: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Getting Credit’ – adapted from ‘The Joys of Alienation’, Bulletin, 27.12.75, pp. 50–51
31: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Luncheon with a Royal Highness’ – adapted from ‘A Credit to Le Ghetto’, Bulletin, 15.11.75, pp. 49–50
32: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Pears Soap Story’ – adapted from ‘Seeking Transparent Purity’, Bulletin, 29.5.76, pp. 51–2
33: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Camping in Balmain’ – adapted, Bulletin, 19.6.71, pp. 38–9
34: Tranter, John, ‘Sonnet 95’ – from Crying in Early Infancy, Makar Press, Brisbane, 1977, p. 54
35: Wilding, Michael, ‘The Tabloid Story Story’ – abridged and slightly revised from a tailpiece article ‘The Tabloid Story story (with comments by Frank Moorhouse and Brian Kiernan)’, in The Tabloid Story Pocket Book, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1978, pp. 295–316
36: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Poet and the Motor Car’ – adapted from ‘Signs and the Times’, Bulletin, 12.6.71, pp. 44–5
37: Hall, Rodney, ‘Rodney Hall on the Death of a Cult-Hero’ – from the Introduction to Voyage into Solitude, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1978, pp. xii–xvi
38: Dransfield, Michael, ‘Poem for Charlie’ – from Voyage into Solitude, University of Queensland Press, 1978
39: Adamson, Robert, ‘The Thoughtless Shore’ – from Southerly, no. 1, 1974, pp. 44–7
40: Afterman, Allen, ‘The Poetry of Michael Dransfield and Charles Buckmaster’ – from Meanjin Quarterly, no. 4, 1973, pp. 169–72
41: Rodd, John Laurence, ‘Burnie’ – an extract from the story ‘Burnie and the UFOs’, Tabloid Story Pocket Book, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1978, p. 43
42: Horne, Donald, ‘Donald Horne on James McAuley’ – abridged extract from The Education of Young Donald, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1967, pp. 224–9
43: Malouf, David, ‘Where in the World was Kenneth Slessor?’ – from Southerly no. 2, 1974, pp. 202–6
44: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Last Expatriate’ – adapted from ‘The Passing of a Long Tradition’, Bulletin, 13.10.73, p. 39
45: Malouf, David, ‘David Malouf Replies’ – a letter to the editor, abridged, Notes and Furphies, no. 3, October 1979, pp. 3–4
46: Herring, Thelma,& Wilkes, G. A., ‘A Conversation with Patrick White’ – from Southerly, no. 2, 1973, pp. 132–43
47: Murray, Scott, ‘Interview with John Duigan’ – extracts from Cinema Papers, issue 16, April–June 1978
48: Hibberd, Jack, ‘Dimboola – Play to Film’ – from Theatre Australia, November 1978, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 13–15
49: Keneally, Thomas, ‘Going to the Fair’ – from Playboy Australia, December 1979, pp. 165–79
50: Maiden, Jennifer, ‘Kitsch’ – from Southerly, no. 3, 1974, pp. 312–13
51: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Cafe Society: Table-to-Table Fighting’ – from Conference-ville, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1976, pp. 115–22
52: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘A Change of Restaurant’ – adapted from ‘Change of Restaurant’, Bulletin, 8.7.72, pp. 50, 61
53: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The New Bar’ – adapted from ‘Drinking in Decor’, Bulletin, 17.4.71, p. 47
54: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Old Bar’ – unpublished
55: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Angel is Gone’ – adapted from ‘Lurex and satin in place of beer?’, Bulletin, 9.6.73, p. 46
56: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Newcastle is Gone’ – adapted, from ‘The Ghosts of George Street’, Bulletin, 18.12.71, p. 42
57: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Hilton Arrives’ – adapted from ‘The Joys of Alienation’, Bulletin, 27.12.75, pp. 51–2
58: Gollan, Myfanwy, (ed.) ‘The Value of Lunch at the New Hellas’ – abridged extract from Kerr and the Consequences, Widescope, Melbourne, 1977, p. 10
59: Colebatch, Hal, ‘Saturday Afternoon at the Ned lands Hotel’ – from Spectators on the Shore, Edwards & Shaw; Sydney, 1975, p. 78
60: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Pot v. Alcohol’ – adapted, from the Bulletin, 31.7.71, pp. 45–6
61: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Conference Tactics – writers at a conference’ – adapted from ‘The Conference as Communication’, Social Alternatives, vol. 1, no. 3, November 1978, pp. 17–20
62: Campbell, Frank, ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic – political economists at a conference’ – abridged, from ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic – First Australian Political Economy Conference’, Arena, no. 43, 1976, pp. 23–6
63: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The End of Anti-Communism – anti-communists at a conference’ – adapted from ‘A red–hot issue that’s cooling down’, Bulletin, 29.9.73, pp. 42–3
64: Huilgol, Glynn, ‘Developing a Dialogue – feminists at a conference’ – adapted from ‘Feminists Manage to Rate Zero’, Nation Review, 29.8.75, vol. 5, p. 1181
65: Maddox, Julie, ‘Sexism is Insidious’ – a letter to the editor, Nation Review, 5.9.75, vol. 5, p. 1194
66: Intervention, ‘Towards an Australian Marxist Intelligentsia’ – editorials from Intervention, no. 1, 1972, pp. 3–6; and no. 5, 1975, pp. 3–4
67: Mortimer, Rex, ‘The Benefits of a Liberal Education’ – from Meanjin Quarterly, no. 2, 1976, pp. 115–26
68: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘An Anarchist Comes to Power’ – adapted from ‘The Penalty of Wilful Personal Enthusiasm’, Bulletin, 21.7.73, p. 46
69: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Blooming of Little Anarchism’, unpublished
70: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘A Radical Country Newspaper’ – adapted from ‘A Country-town Radical’, Bulletin, 17.7.73, p. 38
71: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Radical and other Christmases in the Seventies’, unpublished
72: Morphett, Tony, ‘Tony Morphett – Born-again Christian’ – from On Being, September 1979, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 28–30
73: Sunderland, Jane, ‘Australian Feminist Periodicals in the Seventies’ – adapted and abridged from article (with notes and bibliography) in Hecate, vol. v, no. 2, 1979, pp. 22–30
74: Allen, Yvonne, ‘Women’s Hostility – political weapon or personal poison?’ – from Refractory Girl, winter 1979, pp. 7–10
75: Clark, Andrew, ‘Portrait of a Powerful Australian Woman’ – abridged, from the Bulletin, 24.4.79, pp. 61–4
76: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘The Bush against Laundromat’ – adapted, from Man and landscape in Australia (with notes), Australian National Commission for Unesco, Canberra, 1976, pp. 173–9
77: Forbes, John, ‘Breakfast’ – from Southerly, no. 4, 1976, p. 296
78: Allan, Ranald, ‘Death in the Early Morning: two no-bull deaths’ – from Southerly, no. 3, 1973, pp. 301–4
79: Cosmos, publishers of, ‘Enter, Cosmos’ – from Cosmos, vol. 1, no. 1, 1973, p. 2
80: Horne, Donald, autobiographical notes
81: Viidikas, Vicki, autobiographical notes
82: Colebatch, Hal, autobiographical notes
83: Hibberd, Jack, autobiographical notes
84: Forbes, John, autobiographical notes
85: Moorhouse, Frank, ‘Turning Forty with the Decade’ – revised, from ‘Turning Forty’, National Times colour magazine, 3.10.77, pp. 25–7
86: Tranter, John, ‘Untitled’ – extract from Dazed in the Ladies Lounge, Island Press, Sydney, 1979, p. 12