Intro -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1 Country life -- CHAPTER 2 Rural womanhood and the ’embellishment’ of rural life in urban Australia -- CHAPTER 3 History and memory in Australia’s wheatlands -- CHAPTER 4 Local history and decline in country Victoria -- CHAPTER 5 The river and the town -- CHAPTER 6 Closer settlement in Queensland -- CHAPTER 7 Listening in to The Lawsons -- CHAPTER 8 The Rocky Gully exodus -- CHAPTER 9 The politics of rural nostalgia between the wars -- CHAPTER 10 The dying town syndrome -- AFTERWORD Return to ’countrymindedness’.