Stories

• Prison diary - Robert Drewe
• The concert angels - Sari Smith
• Lingua - Peter Manning
• An olive branch for Sante - Antonio Casella
• The censors' white flare - Simone Lazaroo
• Naatj - Kim Scott
• Peter Meeting Judas in Heaven - Alf Taylor
• The black shoes - Tess Williams
• The realms of the unreal - Stephen Dedman
• Quietly dead, quietly buried - Van Ikin
• A very pale meat - Marion M. Campbell
• Arriving - Terri-ann White
• Genesis - Rebecca Smith
• Still life - Kate Lyons
• Sisters - John Saul
• Texas - Sarah Hay
• West Coast world - David Wilkinson
• The English class - Ouyang Yu
• The floating Ophelias - Chris McLeod
• Skin - Marcella Polain

Poems

Articles

• Bruce Bennett on Westerly through the rear-view mirror
• Michael Ackland on The aims and art of Robert Drewe's fiction
• Myint Zan on Minthuwun: A tribute to a gentle Burmese poet
• Karen Welberry on Horse-breaking as metaphor in Australian cultural discourse
• Robert Dixon on Tim Winton, Cloudstreet and the field of Australian Literature

Review essays

• Kerryn Goldsworthy on Recent fiction
• Syd Harrex on New Australian poetry, 2004-2005
• Robert Dixon on The year's work in non-fiction
• Photographs by Graeme Kinross-Smith
• Peter Cowan, Collector of bottles
• Mary Durack at her home in Perth, W.A.
• Randolph Stow, at the family grave plot, Sand Springs Station, Geraldton, W.A.
• T. A. G. Hungerford, W.A. writer
• Judah Waten, in his study, Box Hill, Melbourne
• Australian writers at poetry reading, Adelaide Writers' Fesitval