Australia's representation gap : a role for Parliamentary Committees? / Ian Marsh -- First in the world : Australia's Watson Labor government / Ross McMullin -- Independents in Federal Parliament : a new challenge or a passing phase? / Jennifer Curtin -- The Constitution we were meant to have / A.J. Brown -- The court politics of the Blair presidency / Rod Rhodes -- Democratic experiments in New Zealand / Elizabeth McLeay -- The Australias are one: John West guiding colonial Australia to nationhood / Patricia Fitzgerald Ratcliff -- Sir Robert Garran / Leslie Zines -- The new centralism and the collapse of the conservative Constitution / Greg Craven