Introduction: the Commonwealth's constitutional century / H.P.Lee and George Winterton
1. The emergence of the Commonwealth constitution / John Williams
2. The engineers case / Kevin Booker and Arthur Glass
3. The uniform income tax cases / Cheryl Saunders
4. The bank nationalism cases: the defeat of Labor's most controversial economic initiative / Peter Johnston
5. The Communist Party case / George Winterton
6. Fitzpatrick and Browne: imprisonment by a house of parliament / Harry Evans
7. The boilermakers case / Fiona Wheeler
8. The race power: a constitutional chimera / Robert French
9. The double dissolution cases / Anthony Mason
10. 1975: the dismissal of the Whitlam government / George Winterton
11. The Tasmanian dam case / Leslie Zines
12. The Murphy affair in retrospect / Geoffrey Lindell
13. The privy council and the constitution / Gerard Brennan
14. Cole v Whitfield: 'absolutely free' trade? / Dennis Rose
15. The 'labour relations power' in the constitution and public sector employees / Marilyn Pittard
16. The implied freedom of political communication / H.P. Lee.