Bushwalking In Australia contains track notes for 25 walks plus brief planning and preparation notes. For each walk there are notes for Duration, Standard, When to Walk, Equipment, Permits, Maps and Access and of course detailed walking notes. 320 pages, A5 in size - full colour throughout, 181 colour photographs, and 56 colour topographic maps.

The guide features:

• notes divided into sections by distances and these distances are marked on the maps making it easy to switch between the notes and the maps
• start and finish of all walks clearly indicated
• gradient profiles (a graph showing ascents and descents) provided for each walk
• maps changed to be full colour topographic maps with grids and magnetic deviation displayed
• sidetrips and alternative track notes placed into shaded boxes thus making it clear which are the main notes and which are extras
• weather charts for each walk
• photographs displayed beside the text they illustrate - not many pages away in sections of colour inserts
• all photographs are taken on the walks and show what the guidebook user will see - no images of nearby or similar places used

The guide contains only overnight or longer walks with full track notes and with colour contour maps at either 1:100,000 or 1:50,000 scales.

Some hidden bonuses are brief biographies of seven important Australian bushwalkers and brief planning notes for six of the major long-distance tracks in Australia. The guide also includes full track notes and maps for a seventh long distance track - the Great South West Walk in Victoria.

Walks included in the 4th (2003) edition of Bushwalking In Australia are:

• New South Wales - Grose Valley, Corang Peak to the Castle (Budawangs), Upper Ettrema Creek (Budawangs), Koscuiszko Main Range, Geehi to Mt Townsend (includes Lady Northcotes Canyon)
• Northern Territory - Chewings Range, Simpsons Gap to Alice Springs (the two walks describe the first 3 sections of the Larapinta Trail near Alice Springs)
• Queensland - Mt Bartle Frere, Thorsborne Trail (Hinchinbrook Island)
• South Australia - Gammon Ranges, Wilpena Pound
• Tasmania - Overland Track, Mt Field, Freycinet Peninsula, Cape Pillar (note this walk is now called the 'Three Capes Track', you can still walk the original tracks but in reverse using tents without paying a high fee)
• Victoria - Mt Feathertop & Bon Accord Spur, The Viking Circuit, Wilsons Promontory Southern Circuit, Beeripmo Walk (a new track west of Ballarat), The Fortress (in the Grampians), Great South West Walk
• Western Australia - Monadnocks Traverse (near Perth), Tingle Forest (near Walpole on south coast), Rame Head to Denmark (also on south coast), Stirling Range

In all, the guide includes 25 overnight and longer walks with 9 new walks not in the 3rd edition. There are walks for all standards with 4 easy, 7 easy-medium, 6 medium, 4 medium-hard and 4 hard walks.