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[ DATE: 20 December 2008]
COVER SHOT: Madonna and Child (c.1505) [The Cowper Madonna] by Raphael (1483-1520).
EDITORIAL: A Christmas reflection - Who was Jesus Christ? - Peter Westmore
Only in understanding the true meaning of Christmas can we begin to answer the great questions of human existence.
HUMAN RIGHTS: Looming threat to our religious freedom
The ability to practise one's religious faith unhindered by government interference may soon change, a current government inquiry has foreshadowed. Damian Wyld reports.
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Turnbull heading a frayed and fractured Opposition
Malcolm Turnbull's leadership, which promised so much, is turning out to be a fizzer after only a few months.
OBITUARY: Max Teichmann (1924-2008) - Writer, academic and raconteur fondly remembered - John Ballantyne
Max Teichmann (1924-2008) has died.
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NATIONAL SECURITY: Will Australia heed the lessons of Mumbai?
Terrorists responsible for the Mumbai massacre used readily available satellite and telecommunications technology to deadly effect. John Miller warns that this marks a dangerous new milestone in the evolution of global terrorism.
OPINION: Is David Hicks's cheer squad paying attention?
David Hicks was reportedly involved with the terrorist organisation, Laskhar-e-Taiba, which has been implicated in the Mumbai massacre, reports Babette Francis.
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Unlocking the riddle of the global financial crisis
Two global financial strategists have shown that central banks control only 10 per cent of total global liquidity. The other 90 per cent is accounted for by derivatives and securitised debt, reports Colin Teese.
BANKING: Bendigo Bank preferred over "Four Pillars"
Bendigo Bank has been voted the bank with which people are most satisfied, reports Ken Aldred.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Australia challenged by US strategic decline
A recent US National Intelligence Council report predicts a diminishing global role for the US. Patrick J. Byrne reports.
ASIA: China exports recession to Taiwan
For Taiwan, the China boom is well and truly over, reports Jeffry Babb.
POLITICS: Key principles of democratic statesmanship
Tony Abbott MP describes the pitfalls all principled statesmen must face when trying to realise their ideals in public office.
CINEMA: Baz Luhrmann's cliché-ridden blockbuster
Baz Lurhmann's film Australia is reviewed by Bill Muehlenberg.
BOOKS: HARD JACKA, by Michael Lawriwsky - Bill James (reviewer)
BOOKS: EKATERINBURG, by Helen Rappaport - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)

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Contents - 6 December 2008
COVER STORY: Opposition tensions to resurface in 2009?
EDITORIAL: Left-liberals to dominate Obama Administration - Peter Westmore
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Disentangling the new world disorder - Colin Teese
SUPERMARKETS: GroceryWatch is a white elephant - Frank Zumbo
POLITICAL IDEAS: The realisable goal of property for all - Dr Allan Carlson
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Giving to the have-mores / How long can Labor last? / Degraded educational standards / Future prospects - Max Teichmann
BANKING: The Medici — manipulators of money and soft power - Jeffry Babb
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Abortion increases risk of pre-term births - Babette Francis
EUGENICS: The menace of eugenics, yesterday and today - Bill Muehlenberg
MARRIAGE: US battle to preserve traditional marriage - John Elsegood
CINEMA: Depraved film the symptom of a sick culture - the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading - Dr John Whitehall (reviewer)
Australian Christian Lobby responds (letter) - Jim Wallace AM
Chechen terrorists (letter) - Patrick J. Gethin
BOOKS: GLOBAL JIHAD: The Future in the Face of Militant Islam, by Patrick Sookhdeo - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOKS: WARSAW 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe, by Adam Zamoyski - Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer)
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Contents - 22 November 2008
EDITORIAL: How Barack Obama won - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: How long will Malcolm Turnbull last?
NATIONAL SECURITY: Executed Bali bombers hailed as martyrs - John Miller
HUMAN RIGHTS: Beijing's butcher is granted Australian visa - Joseph Poprzeczny
ENVIRONMENT: Arctic melting: don't spoil a good story with the facts - Peter Westmore
FINANCIAL MARKETS: Regulatory proposals being put to Obama - Patrick J. Byrne
OPINION: The West's long-running economic malaise - Ken Aldred
HEALTH CARE: Australian medicine's middle way - Jeffry Babb
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: A successful conservative party ready to rebuild - Professor David Flint AM
RULE OF LAW: The perils of a politicised judiciary - Bill Muehlenberg
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Assessing the Australian Christian Lobby - Damian Wyld
POPULATION: The economic consequences of abortion - Steve Mosher and Colin Mason
MEDIA: The facts behind the 1949 coal strike - Peter Westmore
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Toxic melamine in the food chain in China / African-Americans from victimhood to responsibility
Abandoning the old and sick (letter) - Dr Lucy G. Sullivan
Institutional corruption in our schools (letter) - J.W. Shannon
Absurd expectations about Obama (letter) - M. Gordon
BOOKS: THE FAMILY: Power, Politics and Fundamentalism's Shadow Elite, by Jeff Sharlet - Bill James (reviewer)
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Contents - 8 November 2008
EDITORIAL: Economic crisis: predicted and predictable - Peter Westmore
COVER STORY: A third way? Allan Carlson's vision of a family-centred economy - John Ballantyne (interviewer)
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Little room to manoeuvre for Rudd Government
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Market failure and the difficult path ahead - Colin Teese
SUPERANNUATION: Development bank needed for Rudd's nation-building - Patrick J. Byrne
RURAL AFFAIRS: Minister confronted by drought's human toll - Tim Cannon
POPULATION: 'A gigantic, costly and inhumane fraud ...' - Bill Muehlenberg
RUSSIA: Moscow's campaign of kidnapping and murder - Joseph Poprzeczny
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Thailand, land of smiles, convulses - Jeffry Babb
HUMAN RIGHTS: Sakharov Prize awarded to Chinese dissident Hu Jia - Peter Westmore
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Prologue / Just a friend of the family / Epilogue - Max Teichmann
AS THE WORLD TURNS - Quotes for our Times
OBITUARY - Vale Pat Dunne
Doctor to an aborted boy - a poem - Dr John Whitehall
Legalised fraud (letter) - Chris Hilder
Christian Democrats' role in WA election (letter) - Gerard Goiran
BOOKS: THE BIG SQUEEZE: Tough Times for the American Worker, by Steven Greenhouse - Patrick J. Deneen (reviewer)
BOOKS: EMPIRES OF THE SEA: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580, by Roger Crowley - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 25 October 2008
COVER STORY: CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd's desperate gamble
EDITORIAL: Can Australia weather the storm? - Peter Westmore
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Defending Australia's independence - Patrick J. Byrne
CHINA: Milk contamination scandal: tip of the iceberg - Peter Westmore
NEW ZEALAND: November 8 election: Helen Clark's last hurrah? - Bernard Moran
FAMILY: Will paid maternity leave help mothers? - Bill Muehlenberg
VICTORIA: Behind Victoria's radical new abortion law - Peter Westmore
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Can the US adjust to changing world realities? - Colin Teese
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Barbarossa II / Our friends - Max Teichmann
EDUCATION: When the wrong answer is 'right' - Mark Lopez
SCHOOLS: Minister Gillard backs faulty ranking system - Kevin Donnelly
SRI LANKA: Plight of persecuted Tamils worsens - Dr John Whitehall
TAIWAN: Ball in Beijing's court for Taiwan's WHO entry - Jeffry Babb
EUROPE: Germany backs Russia against Georgia, Ukraine - Joseph Poprzeczny
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Health and safety obsessions stifle childhood - Sue Palmer
BOOKS: BLUE PLANET IN GREEN SHACKLES: What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? by Vaclav Klaus - Siobhan Reeves (reviewer)
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Contents - 11 October 2008
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Australia's debt party is well and truly over
EDITORIAL: US financial meltdown worsens ... - Peter Westmore
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Why Congress has been wary about Wall Street bailout - Colin Teese
EDUCATION: Radical left-wing agenda in store for our schools - Kevin Donnelly
DEFENCE: ADF now stretched to the uttermost - Ken Aldred
ASIA-PACIFIC: China's power projection in Fiji - Trevor Loudon
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Concerns over Chinese investment in WA mining - Patrick J. Byrne
OPINION: Taiwan's olive-branch to Beijing - Vanessa Shih
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: Small farms offer solution to world food shortages - Patrick J. Byrne
BIOFUELS: Ethanol home-brew kit on sale - Kris Bevill
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: WA Nationals opt for partnership, not coalition - Joseph Poprzeczny
VICTORIA: Abortion bill cannot enforce gestational limits - Charles Francis AM, QC
ABORTION: Painfully taking the life of the most defenceless - Peter Kavanagh
OPINION: Scientism as the new fundamentalism - Bill Muehlenberg
AS THE WORLD TURNS: British postage stamp honours Hitler admirer / Old and sick have a duty to die / Economics divorced from morality / The everyone-on-your-own society / Decline of male breadwinners
LETTERS: Evidence for global cooling disputed (letter) - Tim Marsh
BOOKS: ORIGINAL SIN: A Cultural History, by Alan Jacobs - Bill James (reviewer)
BOOKS: ECONOMIC FACTS AND FALLACIES, by Thomas Sowell - Jeffry Babb (reviewer)
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Contents - 27 September 2008
COVER STORY: Malcolm Turnbull topples Brendan Nelson
EDITORIAL: Defence: new situations demand new policies - Peter Westmore
GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM: Landmark terrorist trials in Melbourne and London
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS: Why Wall Street imploded - Peter Westmore
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Australia facing external economic pressures - Colin Teese
SCIENCE: Global-warming - myth, threat or opportunity? - Walter Starck
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Breaking the truce on abortion - Dr David van Gend
STRAWS IN THE WIND: The undeserving poor / The bolt from the blue / Sarah Palin / Ladder-kickers / Peter Costello - Max Teichmann
UNITED STATES: Sarah Palin appointment leaves Left apoplectic - Bill Muehlenberg
ASIA: Rocky road ahead for Malaysia - Jeffry Babb
HUMAN-TRAFFICKING: Vietnamese slave-labourers in Malaysia - Peter Westmore
COLD WAR: The spy who teetered on the edge - Warren Reed
EDUCATION: Co-educational secondary schooling's drawbacks - Lucy Sullivan
SCHOOLS: Queensland school bans cartwheels - Kevin Donnelly
Water resources (letter) - Bryan Keaney
Hearing the arguments (letter) - Peter Kavanagh
Palin for president? (letter) - Frank Bellet
Bio-fuels (letter) - Robert Bom
BOOKS: 10 BOOKS THAT SCREWED UP THE WORLD: And 5 Others That Didn't Help, by Benjamin Wiker - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
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Contents - 13 September 2008
COVER STORY / EDITORIAL: How America's choice will affect Australia - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd's threat to close non-performing schools
FOREIGN INVESTMENT: Stronger rules needed on foreign investment - Patrick J. Byrne
AGRICULTURE: High stakes in federal quarantine inquiry - Peter Westmore
EDUCATION: Reflections on home-schooling - Mark Freer
UNITED NATIONS: Australia should not sign UN women's rights protocol - Rita Joseph
VICTORIA: Victoria battles over so-called 'right to kill' - Luke McCormack and Tim Cannon
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: Bid to tax churches out of existence? - Bill Muehlenberg
ADVERTISING: Protests force removal of offensive billboards
CHINA: How China topped the Olympic gold medal tally - Joseph Poprzeczny
UNITED STATES: Michelle Obama's separationist view of race - Babette Francis
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Migration debate revisited / Migrating on the SS Urea (1970) / 2008 postscript - Max Teichmann
Mandated medical malpractice (letter) - Charles Francis, AM, QC, RFD
BOOKS: ON BURCHETT, by Tibor Méray, Tibor Meray - Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer)
BOOKS: THE ISRAEL LOBBY and US Foreign Policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt - Jeffry Babb (reviewer)
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Contents - 30 August 2008
CLIMATE CHANGE: It's official: the world is cooling, not warming - Peter Westmore
EDITORIAL: Olympic Games backfire on Beijing - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Tougher times ahead as commodity boom falters
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Should we rescue imprudent banks? - Colin Teese
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: How Labor's Carpenter may cling to power - Joseph Poprzeczny
WATER: Radical plan to overcome water shortage
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Remembering Menzies' "forgotten people" - Jeffry Babb
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Resurgent Russia's conflict with Georgia - Peter Coates
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Recipe for social conflict / Putin's gamble / Once more unto the swill buckets, dear friends - Max Teichmann
SPECIAL FEATURE: B.A. Santamaria, strategist and prophet - Cardinal George Pell AC
MARRIAGE: On breaking the marriage covenant - Bill Muehlenberg
HISTORY: Hitler proposed a "final solution" for Christianity - Bill James
OBITUARY: Bob O'Connell (August 29, 1922 - July 30, 2008), a generous man of integrity - Fr Peter Joseph
Economic production needed, not speculation (letter) - Dr Garrick Small
BOOKS: WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR GIRLS? Too much too soon: how our kids are overstimulated, oversold and oversexed - Catherine Sheehan (reviewer)
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Contents - 16 August 2008
COVER STORY: Solzhenitsyn, towering 20th-century prophet - John Ballantyne
EDITORIAL: Australia's faltering economy: a way out - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Does Peter Costello have what it takes?
BANKING: Bendigo Bank praised by Reserve Bank governor - Ken Aldred
INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Why the Doha trade round collapsed - Colin Teese
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Plum postings for Australia's new aristocracy - Warren Reid
RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM: Animal rights fanatics threatening our exports - John Morrissey
INTERNET: ISP-level porn filtering moves a step closer - Peter Westmore
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Musical chairs - Max Teichmann
EDUCATION: An education system worth fighting for - Kevin Donnelly
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Opportunities for minor parties in WA election - Gerard Goiran
UNITED KINGDOM: London transport bomb plot trial collapses - John Miller
SPECIAL FEATURE: 1968 Prague Spring remembered - Jan Lidicky
CINEMA: The Dark Knight - Heath Ledger's 'creepy and mesmerising' finale - Siobhan Reeves (reviewer)
BOOKS: A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO MUSIC HISTORY, by R.J. Stove - Mark Freer (reviewer)
BOOKS: THE GREAT ARAB CONQUESTS: How the spread of Islam changed the world we live in, by Hugh Kennedy - Jeffry Babb (reviewer)
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Contents - 2 August 2008
COVER STORY : WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Christianity challenges the secular age - Peter Westmore
EDITORIAL: A tale of two countries ... - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: How Rudd could avoid climate change backlash
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Future threats from China - Peter Coates
FOREIGN INVESTMENT: Sovereign Wealth Funds threaten Australia's independence - Patrick J. Byrne
NATIONAL SECURITY: Let our security services do their job - John Miller
EDUCATION: Reclaiming the school syllabus - John Kelly
SCHOOLS: Will more computers help under-performing schools? - Kevin Donnelly
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Under threat - the roles of motherhood and fatherhood - Mary-Louise Fowler
MEDIA: Ten's Big Brother finally bites the dust - Bill Muehlenberg
STRAWS IN THE WIND: A new political and moral map for Australia? - Max Teichmann
VICTORIA: Women's Hospital counsel defends abortion - Babette Francis
OPINION: Carbon emissions hysteria is economic suicide - Jeffry Babb
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Bastille Day reconsidered / Sharia law in Europe
Answer to water crisis (letter) - John A.H. Brown
Global-warming scepticism challenged (letter) - Tim Wallace
Advances in solar power technology (letter) - John Urquhart
American health care (letter) - John Gates
BOOKS: FORGOTTEN ANZACS: The campaign in Greece, 1941, by Peter Ewer - Bill James (reviewer)
BOOKS: HOMER'S THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY: A Biography, by Alberto Manguel - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 19 July 2008
COVER STORY / MERCHANTS OF SLEAZE: Sexualised marketing targets young girls - Catherine Sheehan
EDITORIAL: Throwing cold water on global warming - Peter Westmore
FOREIGN INVESTMENT: Australia's sovereignty at stake - Patrick J. Byrne
CANBERRA OBSERVED: The economic costs of the Garnaut Report
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: WA Liberals sliding towards defeat - Joseph Poprzeczny
REGIONAL COMMUNITIES: Could an Asian regional grouping work? - Colin Teese
MARRIAGE: Muslim push for polygamy in Australia - Bill Muehlenberg
EUTHANASIA: I'm not sick - can I commit suicide too? - Tim Cannon
UNITED STATES: Health care - America's shame - Jeffry Babb
EDUCATION: What is the advantage of rote-learning? - Warren Reed
SCHOOLS: Political correctness rules in the classroom - Kevin Donnelly
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Faith restored / Buyers' remorse / French resistance / New world disorder / Back to my favourite bête noire / America - Max Teichmann
Natasha Stott Despoja a trail-blazer? (letter) - Denise M. Cameron
Partial-birth abortion (letter) - Charles Francis, AM, QC
BOOKS: THE CHINA FANTASY: Why capitalism will not bring democracy to China, by James Mann - Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer)
DVD: APOCALYPSE? NO! Why global warming is not a crisis, by Christopher Monckton - Peter Finlayson (reviewer)
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Contents - 5 July 2008
COVER STORY: The real China the West prefers to ignore - Joseph Poprzeczny
EDITORIAL: Lessons of the equine influenza (EI) inquiry - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Two big unknowns for the Rudd Government
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Emissions-trading a "bureaucratic indulgence" - Patrick J. Byrne
EQUINE INFLUENZA: AQIS responsible for EI outbreak, says report - Peter Westmore
INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Rudd's scheme for an EU-style Asian community - Colin Teese
GLOBAL TERRORISM: Australians supplying arms to Colombian guerrillas - John Miller
POLITICAL IDEAS: Champion of the humane economy - Wilhelm Röpke - Allan Carlson
OPINION: Why the Howard Government fell - Jonathan Lightoller
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Abortion damage to women ignored by inquiry - Charles Francis QC
EUTHANASIA: Doctor-assisted suicide halted... for now - Tim Cannon
EDUCATION: Environmental jihadists terrorising our children - Bill Muehlenberg
SCHOOLS: Teaching grammar: the blind leading the blind - Kevin Donnelly
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Masculinity under attack / Denying global warming deemed a crime against humanity / Ireland defies European Union
Small business and farmers should make more noise (letter) - Chris Hilder
Renewable energy? (letter) - Lyndon Burns
BOOKS: THE REVOLUTION: A Manifesto, by Ron Paul - Jeffry Babb (reviewer)
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Contents - 21 June 2008
EDITORIAL: 'Peak oil': Apocalypse now? - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Whither the Nationals?
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: What happens after cheap credit, oil and food? - Patrick J. Byrne
SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS: Rudd grants special rights to same-sex couples - Damian Wyld
FAMILY POLICY: Home truths about working families - Bill Muehlenberg
EUTHANASIA: Assisted suicide: safeguards or naivety? - Tim Cannon
NATIONAL SECURITY: Soviet bloc espionage: setting the record straight - Warren Reed and Dr Christopher J. Ward
DEFENCE: Should Australia have nuclear defence capability? - Peter Coates
CHINA: Beijing muzzles protests over Sichuan earthquake - Peter Westmore
UNITED STATES: Is Obama equipped to lead the free world? - Joseph Poprzeczny
CULTURE: How political correctness threatens Australian culture - Senator Cory Bernardi
ART: The downward spiral of modern art - Kevin Donnelly
Barack Obama's oratory (letter) - Frank Bellet
Why cutting Australian emissions won't work (letter) - Suryan Chandrasegaran
Baby imports? (letter) - Peter Townsend
Short-term stupidity (letter) - Gavin Lawrie
CINEMA: New Narnian epic Prince Caspian surpasses expectations - John Ballantyne
BOOKS: INKLINGS OF HEAVEN: C.S. Lewis And Eschatology, by Sean Connolly - Bill James (reviewer)
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Contents - 7 June 2008
EDITORIAL: Will money solve the problems of indigenous Australians? - Peter Westmore
COVER STORY: UK green light for creation of human-animal hybrids - Tim Cannon
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd Labor Government wobbles for the first time
OVERSEAS TRADE: US farm bill buries talk of free trade in agriculture - Patrick J. Byrne
TRADE PRACTICES ACT: Will Liberals back Labor or small business? - Patrick J. Byrne
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Has financial deregulation finally been discredited? - Colin Teese
VICTORIA: Vic. court hands gambling decision back to council - Luke McCormack
CENSORSHIP: Student union bans pro-life activities
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Post-abortive women: from silence to lawsuits - Luke McCormack
CULTURE: Our topsy-turvy world: on kangaroo culls and child porn - Bill Muehlenberg
CHILDHOOD: Are violent video games harmless entertainment? - Kevin Donnelly
HUMAN RIGHTS: The Olympics and China's organ-harvesting shame - David Kilgour
OPINION: Democracy in disconnect: joining the dots - Warren Reed
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Urban environments to human scale / War on the family / How we lost the Cold War
Chickens coming home to roost (letter) - Alix Turner
Obligation to tackle global warming (letter) - Brian E. Lloyd, AM
Farmers and carbon tax (letter) - Dave Boland
Railway opportunities beckon (letter) - Kevin O'Neill
BOOKS: STRONG FATHERS, STRONG DAUGHTERS, by Meg Meeker MD - Catherine Sheehan (reviewer)
BOOKS: GOD'S CRUCIBLE: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 570-1215, by David Levering Lewis - Jeffry Babb (reviewer)
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Contents - 24 May 2008
COVER STORY: Rudd Budget targets 'middle-class' welfare
EDITORIAL: 'Whom the gods wish to destroy...' - Peter Westmore
LABOUR MARKET: Post-school education and training: a national crisis - Catherine Sheehan
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Oil imports threaten to blow out foreign debt - Patrick J. Byrne
ENERGY: Germany's rapid development of renewable energy - Patrick J. Byrne
SCHOOLS: Dubious deal offered to pupils' parents / Faith schools' autonomy defended - Kevin Donnelly
CIVIL LIBERTIES: Political correctness suppresses free speech - Bill Muehlenberg
ABORTION: Why abortion should remain a crime - David Perrin
PUBLIC AFFAIRS: The indispensable role of government - Dr Christopher J. Ward
DEFENCE: Lest we forget our duty of care to servicemen - Warren Reed
OLYMPIC GAMES: Clean-up or purges? Beijing prepares for the Games - Jeffry Babb
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: Is the United Nations beyond repair? - John Bolton
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Westerners acquiescing to creeping sharia / Oil fuelling world's conflicts
OPINION: Why we should encourage creation of new Australian states - Don Ford
Plight of young home-buyers (letter) - Bob Day AO
In defence of global warming (letter) - Tim Wallace
Wrong way to tackle inflation (letter) - Chris Hilder
US presidential elections (letter) - Frank Bellet
Life, not euthanasia (letter) - Brian Harris
BOOKS: RELIGION OF PEACE? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't, by Robert Spencer - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOKS: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane - Peter Westmore (reviewer)
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Contents - 10 May 2008
COVER STORY: Labor abandons small business - Patrick J. Byrne
EDITORIAL: Overhaul Australia's quarantine system! - Peter Westmore
HOUSING: How to make the Australian dream come true - Jeff Babb
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Daunting challenges for Swan's first Budget
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Australia reels under sub-prime fall-out - Colin Teese
AGRICULTURE: Behind the world's food shortage - Patrick J. Byrne
NATIONAL SECURITY: Is it ever too early to foil a terrorist plot? - John Miller
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Dial an anti-climax / Carrying a torch for China / Economic gobbledegook / Adolescent roulette... and culture shock / Zimbabwe - Max Teichmann
CHINA: Beijing spying apparatus gears up for Olympics - Peter Coates
HIGHER EDUCATION: The high cost of free love - Bill Muehlenberg
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Women in danger from sex predators, coerced abortions - Babette Francis
POPULATION: Russian life expectancy worse than Bangladesh's
MEDIA: ABC program's Castro whitewash - Bill James
Point overlooked (letter) - Colin Teese
Competition policy review (letter) - Chris Hilder
China's jackboot diplomacy (letter) - M. Gordon
No voice for unborn at Rudd summit (letter) - Denise M. Cameron
Our next Governor-General (letter) - Frances Costa
It's time to help boys (letter) - Alan Barron
BOOKS: RISING '44: The Battle for Warsaw, by Norman Davies. - Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer)
BOOKS: SILENT MOVIES: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture, by Peter Kobel - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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A Proposal for a Development Bank PROPOSAL OUTLINE (PDF) 1. How the Commonwealth Development Bank helped build Australia 2. How Germany’s development bank (the Kreditanstalt fur Weideraufbau (KfW)) works 3. About the KfW today (PDF) 4. New Zealand: setting up a People’s Bank 5.25% of all bank branches closed 1993-2000 (PDF) What the papers are saying: * Canberra Times, Nov 6: People's bank will help close the gaps (Emeritus Prof Ted Kolsen) * AFR, Nov 6: People's bank: need overtaken by greed (Prof Rod Jensen) * AFR, Nov 6: Yes to a national development bank (Prof Hugh Stretton, Adelaide University) * The Age, Nov 1: Why not a people's bank, Mr Beazley? (Kenneth Davidson) * AFR, Nov 1: Let's at least examine bank proposal (Will Bailey) * Sydney Morning Herald EDITORIAL, Oct 30: Banks for People * Herald-Sun, Oct 21: People's bank "has potential"(Gerard McManus)

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Max Teichmann: News Weekly - a variety of ideas and points of view News Weekly is one of those few contemporary Australian journals, which hasn't got a line, which draws upon writers of quite varying political and economic points of view, and which displays, for the judgement of the reader, a variety of ideas on politics, religion, economics, philosophy, and social questions. The most important feature of News Weekly is that it is informed by a Social Conscience, and believes that morality and moral issues are to be found in virtually every aspect of our lives, socially and individually.

News Weekly publishes special editions covering important issues and topics. A Manifesto for Australia is the most recent special edition magazine, focusing on Globalisation, the new economy and free market. Read articles from this compelling edition online.
Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 13 October 2001:Not too many publications go out on a limb to suggest policies, but News Weekly is an exception. Published in January, its Manifesto for Australia outlines a broad range of problems caused by "uncontrolled deregulation" during the past 20 years, including "widespread job destruction" and downsized essential public services. Then it spells out policies to solve these problems, which include a new Commonwealth-style bank and a homemakers' allowance to help families with children. - Daniel Fallon
Contents - 13 Jan 2001
A MANIFESTO FOR AUSTRALIA - January 13, 2001
A CALL TO ARMS - January 13, 2001 - Peter Westmore
Part A: Globalism - the theory and the reality - January 13, 2001
Corporate capitalism: the product of government intervention - January 13, 2001
Part B: A history of economic rationalism in Australia - January 13, 2001
Part C: How Globalism undermines the family - January 13, 2001
Part D: The cultural revolution and the new economy - January 13, 2001
Part E: A policy agenda for Australia's future prosperity - January 13, 2001
Some remarks on the new economic disorder - January 13, 2001 - Max Teichmann