Table of Contents

Introduction
An Obnoxious Inconvenience: Passports, the Australian Colonies and the Era of Free Movement
‘The Exigencies of War’: World War One and the ‘temporary’ passport
‘A difficult business’: Change, resistance and the Australian Passport during the 1920s
‘Who is inside and who is out’: the Australian Passport System in the 1930s
‘A precedent for similar action’: discretionary power, the Cold War and passports
‘That precious document’: Wilfred Burchett’s battle for an Australian passport
Citizenship, Immigration and Globalisation
Problems of Identity: the Stewart Royal Commission, the Biometric Passport and the Australian Passports Act 2005
Bibliography