Part I: 1. Making an edgier history of gold David Goodman; 2. 'The finger
of God': gold's impact on New South Wales Paul Pickering; 3. Gold-rush
Melbourne Graeme Davison; 4. Labour and trade unionism in Victorian
goldmining: Bendigo, 1861-1915 Charles Fahey; 5. Mullock heaps and tailing
mounds: the environmental effects of alluvial goldmining Barry McGowan;
Part II: 6. 'Men of all nations, except Chinamen': Europeans and Chinese on
the goldfields of New South Wales Ann Curthoys; 7. Undesirable persons:
race and West Australian mining legislation Patrick Bertola; 8. Golden
opportunities? Immigrant workers in Western Australia's eastern goldfields,
1900-65 Bill Bunbury; Part III: 9. Eyewitness? Drawings by Oscar of
Cooktown Kim McKenzie and Carol Cooper; 10. Golden reflections: depictions
of Aborigines on the North-West Australian goldfields Ian Coates; 11.
Lasseter's stories: tending the ghosts of desert gold David Raftery; 12.
Isla del Oro: seeking New Guinea gold Hank Nelson; 13. Jukurrpa - golden
dreams Derek Elias; Part IV: 14. Mrs Charles Clancy, Lola Montez and Poll
the grogseller: glimpses of women on the early Victorian goldfields
Margaret Anderson; 15. After the gold rush: material culture and settlement
on Victoria's central goldfields Susan Lawrence; 16. Vegetable plots and
pleasure gardens of the Victorian goldfields Suzanne Hunt; Part V: 17.
Edward Snell: sketching a fortune Tom Griffiths and Alan Platt; 18. Antoine
Fauchery: a French artist's view of the goldfields Dianne Reilly; 19.
Cinderella's jewellery: the gold-rush brooches of Western Australia Dorothy
Erickson; 20. A broad brush dipped in gold: the expansion of Australian
vision Anita Callaway.
