Includes papers on the representation of Australian states; the function of the Committee of Imperial Defence; the "Strategical conditions of the Empire from the military point of view"; the possibility of assimilating war organisation throughout the Empire; patterns and provisions of equipment and stores for colonial forces; desirability that the Colonial Governments should give their orders for ordinance stores through the War Office; naval defence; statement of the military and naval expenditure of the British Empire, 1905-1906; emigration; naturalisation; double payment of income tax; imperial stamp charges on colonial bonds; profits of silver coinage; decimal currency; the metric system; the question of judicial appeals; preferential trade (fiscal and treaty questions); imperial cable communication; universal penny postage; protection of patents and trade marks; trade statistics; company laws; admitting land surveyors and barristers to practice.