Review from previous edition 'a book which will be consulted for decades to come and which every educated household should possess'
Roger Hainsworth, Adelaide Review
this splendid new alphabetically ordered reference book on Australian history is remarkably free from the biases of political correctness or economic innocence...it is fair, competent and comprehensive; useful as a reference and often good to read in itself.
Robert Murray, Quandrant
A host of readers will consult this Companion and glean crucial facts and statistics, many of them unknown even to some specialists...the major articles in The Oxford Companion to Australian History say something new with clarity and pithiness. The three editors deserve praises, not least because they themselves have written many of the major articles, commenting with insight even on fields that are not their own
Geoffrey Blainey, Times Literary Supplement