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• 7 • Introduction (The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Fifth Annual Volume)) • essay by Bill Congreve
• 15 • Painlessness • (2008) • novelette by Kirstyn McDermott
• 45 • For Want of a Jesusman • [Jesusman] • (2009) • short story by Jason Fischer
• 62 • Hush • (2009) • short story by Deborah Biancotti
• 76 • This Is Not My Story • (2008) • short story by Dirk Flinthart
• 92 • Truth Window • [Wormwood / Nobodoi] • (2008) • short story by Terry Dowling (variant of Truth Window: A Tale of the Bedlam Rose)
• 114 • Nightship • (2008) • short story by Kim Westwood
• 131 • Fearless Flying Apartment People • (2008) • short story by Geoffrey Maloney
• 137 • Wives • (2009) • novella by Paul Haines
• 248 • The Census-Taker's Tale • (2008) • short story by Kaaron Warren
• 265 • Getting Rid of Mother • (2008) • short story by Robert Hood
• 281 • The Last Deflowerer • (2008) • short story by Karen Maric
• 296 • Bitter Dreams • [Bitter Dreams] • (2008) • novelette by Ian McHugh
• 334 • The Goosle • (2008) • short story by Margo Lanagan
• 350 • The Empire • (2008) • novelette by Simon Brown (variant of Empire)
• 373 • Ascension • (2009) • short story by Martin Livings