PART 1 -- The Fifties - page 5 -- In the beginning -- Mary R ossi p.15 -- Toni Lamond p.22 -- Bev Gledhill p.28 -- PART 2 -- The Sixties - page 35 -- Ladies and Girls -- Maggie Tabberer p.47 -- Eileen O'Shea p.55 -- Patricia Lovell p.62 -- Noeline Brown p.69 -- Anne Wills p.76 -- Norma Breen p.83 -- Cherrie Bottger p.88 -- Patti Newton p.94 -- Annette Allison p.99 -- PART 3 -- The Seventies - page 105 -- Women in the News -- Suzanne Baker p.113 -- Victoria Rubensohn p.120 -- Jenny Brockie p.128 -- Lorraine Bayly p.135 -- Jacki MacDonald p.142 -- Jana Wendt p.50 -- PART 4 -- The Eighties - page 157 -- Drama Queens -- Sandra Levy p.166 -- Mary Kostakidis p.174 -- Posie Graeme-Evans p.180 -- Eva Presser p.186 -- Sue Masters p.193 -- Dr Patricia Edgar p.201 -- Corallie Ferguson p.208 -- Noni Hazlehurst p.215 -- Bridget Ikin p.225 -- Geraldine Doogue p.232 -- PART 5 -- The Nineties - page 239 -- Good Sports -- Gina Riley p.244 -- Jane Turner p.250 -- Karen Tighe p.255 -- Karla Grant p.262 -- Kim Vecera p.269 -- Maureen Plavsic p.276 -- Maureen Barron p.284 -- PART 6 -- The new millennium - page 291 -- The New Media Mavens -- Gretel Killeen p.298 -- Rachel Perkins 304 -- Anita Jacoby 310 -- Deanne W eir 317 -- Fleur Fahey 323 -- Lynley Marshall p.328 -- Claudia Karvan p.335 -- PART 7 -- Look at us! - page 341 -- Some More Women to Celebrate p.341.

This is a celebration of women's role in Australian television, as told through the eyes of thirty women, many of whom have been influential in shaping Australian television over the last fifty years.

Bibliography: p. 397.