The Enlightenment, Philanthropy and the Idea of Social Progress in Early Australia

Introduction

1. A Shortcut to Civilisation: The Idea of Social Progress and the Founders of Australia

2. The Purveyors of Modernity: Early "Civilising" Attempts

3. Lachlan Macquarie: The Enlightened Autocrat, the Laird of New South Wales

4. The Handmaid of Religion?:"Civilisation - Christianisation" Debate and the Progress of the Protestant Missions

5. The Folly of the Enlightened Mind: The Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate, the Rise of the Scheme

6. The Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate: The Climax and the Unraveling

Conclusion