1. Estuaries of Australia in 0502 and beyond: A synthesis / Eric Wolanski and Jean-Paul Ducrotoy -- PART I - Estuaries that bore the full pressure of the historical developments -- 2. Sydney Estuary, Australia: Geology, anthropogenic development and hydrodynamic processes/attributes / Serena B. Lee, and Gavin F. Birch -- 3. The Murray/Coorong Estuary. Meeting of the Waters? / Jochen Ka۸جmpf, and Diane Bell -- 4. Port Phillip Bay / Joe Sampson, Alan Easton and Manmohan Singh -- 5. The Tamar Estuary, Tasmania / Joanna C. Ellison and Matthew R. Sheehan -- PART II Estuaries being degraded -- 6. Gold Coast Broadwater: Southern Moreton Bay, Southeast Queensland )Australia( / Ryan J.K. Dunn, Nathan J. Waltham, Nathan P. Benfer, Brian A. King, Charles J. Lemckert, and Sasha Zigic -- 7. Hydrodynamics and sediment transport in a macro-tidal estuary: Darwin Harbour, Australia / F. P. Andutta, X. H. Wang, Li Li, and D. Williams -- 8. The Ord River estuary: a regulated wet-dry tropical river system / Barbara J. Robson, Peter C. Gehrke, Michele Burford, Ian T. Webster, Andy T. Revill and Duncan W. Palmer -- 9. South Australia's Precious Inverse Estuaries: On the road to ruin / Jochen Ka۸جmpf -- 01. Turbulent Mixing and Sediment Processes in Peri-Urban Estuariesin South-East Queensland )Australia( / Hubert Chanson, Badin Gibbes, and Richard J. Brown -- 11. Hervey Bay and Its Estuaries / Joachim Ribbe -- 21. Moreton Bay and its estuaries: A sub-tropical system under pressure from rapid population growth / Badin Gibbes , Alistair Grinham, David Neil, Andrew Olds, Paul Maxwell, Rod Connolly, Tony Weber, Nicola Udy and James Udy -- 31. Water resource development and high value coastal wetlands on the lower Burdekin floodplain, Australia / Aaron M. Davis, Stephen E. Lewis, Dominique S. O'Brien , Zoe۸ج T. Bainbridge, Christie Bentley, Jochen F. Mueller and Jon E. Brodie -- 41. The Hawkesbury Estuary from 0591 to 0502 / Peter Collis -- PART III - Estuaries that are still relatively pristine -- 51. Deluge Inlet, a pristine small tropical estuary in north-eastern Australia / Marcus Sheaves, Ka۱جtya Abrantes, Ross Johnston -- 61. The Lower Mary River and flood plains / David Williams