Entertainment in the Playford era: the changing scene By Alison Painter.
This essay originally appeared as ch. 15 in Bernard O'Neil, Judith Raftery & Kerrie Round (eds), Playford's South Australia: essays on the history of South Australia, 1933-1968, Adelaide, Association of Professional Historians, 1996, pp.295-318, and is republished here with minor corrections.

Motor cars and freeways measures of a South Australian love affair By Peter Donovan.
This essay first appeared as chapter 10, pp.201-21, in Bernard O’Neil, Judith Raftery & Kerrie Round eds, Playford’s South Australia: essays on the history of South Australia, 1933-1968 Association of Professional Historians, Adelaide 1996,

Saving South Australia’s Babies: the Mothers’ and Babies’ Health Association By Judith Raftery.
This essay first appeared in the volume, Playford's South Australia: Essays on the history of South Australia, 1933-1968, edited by Bernard O'Neil, Judith Raftery and Kerrie Round, and published by the Association of Professional Historians SA [now the PHA SA], Adelaide, 1996, pp.275-294, and is republished here with minor variations and without illustrations.

The ‘Playmander’: Its origins, operation and effect on South Australia By Jenny Tilby Stock.
This essay first appeared in Bernard O'Neil, Judith Raftery & Kerrie Round (eds), Playford's South Australia: essays on the history of South Australia, 1933-1968, Adelaide, Association of Professional Historians, 1996, pp.73-90.

‘National heroes not national villains’: South Australia and the atomic age By Bernard O'Neil.
This essay was first published as ch 8 in Bernard O'Neil, Judith raftery & Kerrie Round (eds), Playford's South Australia, Adelaide. APH, 1996, pp.155-176.