Includes the following essays: Ray Wood (Macquarie University), “Does the revisionist explanation of the Pacific Labour Trade need to be revised?”, p/c, 21pp ; Beverley Anne Miller (Macquarie University), “What role did women play and what status did they have in pre-colonial Papua New Guinea? How, if at all, did their role and status change under Australian rule? What have the first and second Somare governments done for women?”, p/c, 25pp.