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• Preliminary pages (PDF, 170KB)
• Acknowledgements (PDF, 55KB)
• The legacy (PDF, 63KB)
• Foreword: the hidden history of Australia’s early response to climate change (PDF, 99KB)

1. History is what we make it (PDF, 102KB)
2. Loading the dice: humans as planetary force (PDF, 156KB)
3. Framing information to influence what we hear (PDF, 116KB)
4. What Australians knew 25 years ago (PDF, 435KB)
5. Australians persuaded to doubt what they knew (PDF, 172KB)
6. Influences on a changed story and the new normal 1990s: values and beliefs (PDF, 172KB)
7. Influences on a changed story and the new normal: media locks in the new narrative (PDF, 199KB)
8. Influences on a changed story and the new normal: scientists’ beliefs and public scepticism (PDF, 569KB)
9. In search of certainty and applying uncertainty (PDF, 154KB)
10. Dicing with the climate: how many more throws? (PDF, 122KB)

• A chronology of some major climate science/policy milestones  (PDF, 101KB)
• List of acronyms (PDF, 172KB)
• Bibliography (PDF, 1.3MB)