Part One – Overview: Professional conflict and welfarism
Legal needs and the origins of contemporary legal aid
The Whitlam years: Public aid and social democratic vision
Professional reactions, mobilisation and division
Fraserism, conflict and State commissions
Part Two – Overview: Professional change, neo-liberalism and the state
Growth, consolidation and crisis
From providers to purchasers and suppliers
Community legal centres: Autonomous and alternative
Conclusion: Professionalism and Australian legal aid in retrospect