Cover; Contents; Summary; About the authors; Acknowledgements; About our sponsors; 1. Introduction; The Australian mammal fauna and its fate; Aims of this action plan; Methods and definitions; Distributional database and mapping; Information base; Template for accounts for individual taxA; Consequences of status assigned here; 2. A list of native Australian mammal species and subspecies; Introduction; Rationale for taxonomic treatments used in this Action Plan; Working list of native Australian mammal species and subspecies.

3. Evaluation of taxa that have been translocated to islands and 'mainland islands'Introduction; Assisted colonisation and red list evaluations; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; 4. Conservation status assigned to all Australian mammal species and subspecies; Listing of accounts provided for 'Not Evaluated' taxa; 5. Taxa profiles; 6. Analysis: the status and trends of Australian mammals; Tallies of conservation status; Comparisons with current IUCN and EPBC Act status; Trends in conservation status; Threats; Research and management; Recovery planning; Monitoring; Geographic pattern; Islands.

7. ConclusionsAppendix A. Accounts for taxa that are not evaluated; Appendix B: Calculation of taxonomic distinctiveness scores for species and subspecies; References; Index.