The article introduces articles appearing in this edition of the journal including, "Governor Macquarie's Job Descriptions and the Bureaucratic Control of the Convict Labour Process" by Bill Robbins, "We have no redress unless we strike: Class, Gender and Activism in the Melbourne Tailoresses' Strike, 1882-83," by Danielle Thornton, and "From Labourism to Social Democracy: Labor Governments and Fiscal Policy in the Australian States, 1911-40," by Geoffrey Robinson.