A series of quality A4-size colour magazines, each 16 pages:

Part 1 Voice of a nation
40 years of The Australian, plus the 40 most influential people of 2004, the 40 great ideas of the past four decades, and the challenges ahead.

Part 2: The Sexual Revolution
From mini skirts and the Pill to our gender blender world.

Part 3: Knowledge
The big science questions answered and the quests to come – Professor Paul Davies sums up our progress.

Part 4: Politics
The rise and rise of people power, from Menzies to Howard. Editor-at-large Paul Kelly looks where we are headed next.

Part 5: World events
How the lessons of Vietnam apply to Iraq. Peter Wilson finds out why the world is still at war.

Part 6: The Culture
Two dames, a king . . . and a dash of Alvin. Graeme Blundell relives his past (or the bits he can remember).

Part 7: Cartoons
Four decades of razor-sharp fun with Bill Leak, Peter Nicholson, Bruce Petty, Larry Pickering, Bill Mitchell and more

Part 8: Sport
Legends and losers: why sport is our national obsession, plus the four great stars of the past 40 years.

Part 9: Identity
Who we are – four decades of evolving national identity, from White Australia to Mabo, to the Tampa

Part 10: Business
Boom and bust – the tycoons who survived the financial storms of the past 40 years – and those who didn’t. Plus the challenges ahead.

Part 11: The Land
From the sheep’s back to saving the Murray – four decades of working our unique landscape. Rural writer Asa Wahlquist examines the lessons learned.

Part 12: Heroes and villains
And there are plenty of them! The last 40 years has produced an intriguing gallery of the best and the worst of Australia.

Part 13: News in Pictures
A stunning and awards-winning record of the people and events that have shaped our last four decades.