Journal of Australian Colonial History

Vol.2, No.1 (April 2000)

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart & Bruce Hindmarsh	`This is the bird that never flew': William Stewart, Major Donald MacLeod and the Launceston Advertiser	1
Shane Breen	Local Authority in Colonial Tasmania 1858-1898	29
David Andrew Roberts	`A Sort of Inland Norfolk Island'? Isolation, Coercion and Resistance on the Wellington Valley Convict Station, 1823-26.	50
BOOK REVIEWS		73
Sara Joynes	The Australian Joint Copying Project and Sources for the Study of Convict Records (1945-1993)	84

Frank Bongiorno	An Antipodean Christminister? The Campaign for Evening Lectures at the University of Melbourne, 1890-92	1
Bruce Bennett	Ego, Sight and Insight in Convict Fiction by Henry Savery and John Boyle O'Reilly	28
Lyndon Megarrity	'Don't You Think They Know Their Business Best?' The failure of Private Railway Companies in Late Colonial Queensland	41
Andrew Messner	Popular Constitutionalism and Chinese Protest on the Victorian Goldfields	63
BOOK REVIEWS		79