Simon Ville is Senior Professor of Economic and Business History at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and will be the Whitlam-Fraser Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University in 2022-3. He has written widely on big business, foreign investment, the rural and resource industries, the natural history trade, social capital, transport history, and the Vietnam War.David Merrett is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely in Australian economic and business history. His current interests include the rise of big business and the internationalisation of the Australian economy in the twentieth century. He has numerous publications on foreign firms in Australia, notably ANZ Bank (1985), but also on Australian firms as multinationals.

• Chapter 1: The international connections of the Australian colonies.- Chapter 2: Foreign investment before World War One.- Chapter 3: Hidden from view. The multinational enterprise in colonial Australia.- Chapter 4: Early entrants: MNEs in Australia, c.1820-70.- Chapter 5: The Spread of the Multinational Economy by 1914.- Chapter 6: Why did they come?.- Chapter 7: Where did they go? Multinationals and the development of Australia.- Chapter 8: Global Hosts.- Chapter 9: Distance no Tyranny.

Simon Ville is Senior Professor of Economic and Business History at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and will be the Whitlam-Fraser Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University in 2022-3. He has written widely on big business, foreign investment, the rural and resource industries, the natural history trade, social capital, transport history, and the Vietnam War.David Merrett is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely in Australian economic and business history. His current interests include the rise of big business and the internationalisation of the Australian economy in the twentieth century. He has numerous publications on foreign firms in Australia, notably ANZ Bank (1985), but also on Australian firms as multinationals.

• Chapter 1: The international connections of the Australian colonies.- Chapter 2: Foreign investment before World War One.- Chapter 3: Hidden from view. The multinational enterprise in colonial Australia.- Chapter 4: Early entrants: MNEs in Australia, c.1820-70.- Chapter 5: The Spread of the Multinational Economy by 1914.- Chapter 6: Why did they come?.- Chapter 7: Where did they go? Multinationals and the development of Australia.- Chapter 8: Global Hosts.- Chapter 9: Distance no Tyranny.

Simon Ville is Senior Professor of Economic and Business History at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and will be the Whitlam-Fraser Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University in 2022-3. He has written widely on big business, foreign investment, the rural and resource industries, the natural history trade, social capital, transport history, and the Vietnam War.David Merrett is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely in Australian economic and business history. His current interests include the rise of big business and the internationalisation of the Australian economy in the twentieth century. He has numerous publications on foreign firms in Australia, notably ANZ Bank (1985), but also on Australian firms as multinationals.

• Chapter 1: The international connections of the Australian colonies.- Chapter 2: Foreign investment before World War One.- Chapter 3: Hidden from view. The multinational enterprise in colonial Australia.- Chapter 4: Early entrants: MNEs in Australia, c.1820-70.- Chapter 5: The Spread of the Multinational Economy by 1914.- Chapter 6: Why did they come?.- Chapter 7: Where did they go? Multinationals and the development of Australia.- Chapter 8: Global Hosts.- Chapter 9: Distance no Tyranny.