Introduction : the history of the far left in Australia since 1945 / Jon Piccini, Evan Smith and Matthew Worley -- Australian communism in crisis, 1956 / Phillip Deery -- The current of Maoism in the Australian far left / Drew Cottle and Angela Keys -- Breaking with Moscow : the Communist Party of Australia's new road to socialism / David McKnight -- The "white Australia" policy must go : the Communist Party of Australia and immigration restriction / Jon Piccini and Evan Smith -- The far left and the fight for aboriginal rights : the formation of the Council for Aboriginal Rights (CAR), 1951 / Jennifer Clark -- How far left? : negotiating radicalism in Australian anti-nuclear politics in the 1960s / Kyle Harvey -- 1968 in Australia : the student movement and the New Left / Russell Marks -- Changing consciousness, changing lifestyles : Australia's women liberation, the left and the politics of "personal solutions" / Isobelle Barrett Meyering -- Black power and white solidarity : the Action Conference on Racism and Education, Brisbane 1972 / Lewis d'Avigdor -- The Australian left and gay liberation, from 1945 to 2000s / Liz Ross -- Beating BHP : the Wollongong jobs for women campaign 1980-1991 / Diana Covell -- Halcyon days? : the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union and the accord / Elizabeth Humphrys -- Reading and contesting Germaine Greer and Dennis Altman : the 1970s and beyond / Jon Piccini and Ana Stevenson -- The cultural front : left cultural activism in the post-war era / Lisa Milner