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[ DATE: 10 May 2008]
COVER STORY: Labor abandons small business
The Rudd Government seems set to weaken laws designed to outlaw predatory pricing by large retailers.
(Front cover design by Deborah Baker).
EDITORIAL: Overhaul Australia's quarantine system!
Quarantine should be treated as an integral component of Australia's national security, along with the Customs Service and Australian Federal Police, not as a subsidiary to the Department of Agriculture.
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HOUSING: How to make the Australian dream come true
First home-buyers ought to be able to buy a good home and land for as little as $130,000.
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Daunting challenges for Swan's first Budget
The new federal Treasurer Wayne Swan's problems are being compounded by overseas events over which he has no control.
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Australia reels under sub-prime fall-out
Could Australia be heading towards another bout of 1970s-style "stagflation" - that is, stagnant growth, unemployment and rising inflation?
AGRICULTURE: Behind the world's food shortage
Food riots in a number of developing countries have begun to refocus the attention of governments after decades of policy neglect.
NATIONAL SECURITY: Is it ever too early to foil a terrorist plot?
A former senior intelligence officer asks: how far can a terrorist plot be allowed to proceed before the authorities intervene and arrest suspects?
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
Beijing has at its disposal at home and abroad hundreds of thousands of spies and informers and the latest Big Brother technology with which to keep track of political opponents.
HIGHER EDUCATION: The high cost of free love
Any values and beliefs youngsters may have been raised with at home are quickly assaulted on entering university.
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Women in danger from sex predators, coerced abortions
Idaho is the first American state to legally forbid individuals from forcing a woman to have an abortion.
POPULATION: Russian life expectancy worse than Bangladesh's
Russia's dwindling and debilitated workforce will be a formidable obstacle to Russian productivity and development.
MEDIA: ABC program's Castro whitewash
A recent ABC radio interview featured a discussion about Cuba's former dictator Fidel Castro, but failed to mention the communist island-state's appalling human rights.
LETTERS: Point overlooked (Colin Teese); Competition policy review (Mr Chris Hilder); China's jackboot diplomacy (Mr M. Gordon); No voice for unborn at Rudd summit (Denise M. Cameron); Our next Governor-General (Frances Costa); It's time to help boys (Allan Barron).
BOOKS: RISING '44: THE BATTLE FOR WARSAW, by Norman Davies - Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer).
BOOKS: SILENT MOVIES, by Peter Kobel - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer).

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Contents - 26 April 2008
COVER STORY: Too terrible to contemplate - John Miller
EDITORIAL: Torch relay highlights Beijing's human rights record - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Could Costello unite demoralised Liberals?
MANUFACTURING: Car-making could be our flagship industry - Craig Milne
NEW ZEALAND: NZ Kiwibank now has 600,000 customers - Peter Westmore
WATER: Federal water policy will add to world food shortage - Patrick J. Byrne
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Reaping the whirlwind of financial deregulation - Colin Teese
PROFILE: Other side of Australia's next Governor-General - Peter Westmore
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Life is a cabaret / Nepal / Bitter fruits / Russia and China / Swan song? / The skaters' waltz / Rice / Ingrid Betancourt - Max Teichmann
ASIA: Middle power status for Australia: mind over rhetoric - Warren Reed
AFRICA: World stands by as Mugabe inflicts terror in Zimbabwe - Peter Westmore
FAMILY LAW: Paternity fraud punishes the blameless - Charles Francis QC
SCHOOLS: What must be done to lift standards? - Kevin Donnelly
INTERNET FILTERING: Porn industry opposes Conroy's ISP-filter plan
OPINION: Economic policy should serve national interest - Robin Speed
BOOKS: LIBERAL FASCISM: The secret history of the American left, from Mussolini to the politics of meaning - Jeffry Babb (reviewer)
BOOKS: EMBRYO: A Defense of Human Life by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
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Contents - 12 April 2008
COVER STORY: Red Star over Canberra - Joseph Poprzeczny
EDITORIAL: Behind the bid for UN Security Council seat - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd's ideas summit looms
BIOFUELS: Ethanol doesn't have to compete with food - Patrick J. Byrne
QUARANTINE: AQIS blamed for equine influenza outbreak - Peter Westmore
FINANCE: Right and wrong way to tackle financial crisis - Colin Teese
STRAWS IN THE WIND: The American elections / Rudd's honesty / Conservative blues / NATO's fastidious peace-keeping - Max Teichmann
TAIWAN: KMT victory paves way for improved China ties - Jeffry Babb
EUROPE: The Dutch disease - how low can you go? - Bill Muehlenberg
BIOETHICS: Man - a vanishing species? - Babette Francis
OPINION: Twilight of the British Raj - Mark Braham
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Beijing's one-child policy a demographic powder-keg / A nation of dunces? / Fragility of the affluent society
High cost of foregoing trade deal (letter) - John R. Barich
Finlandisation? (letter) - Paul Jeffery
News Weekly's stand on global-warming (letter) - P.C. Wilson
Earth Hour a silly idea (letter) - Alan Barron
BOOKS: THE LITERACY WARS: teaching children to read and write in Australia by Ilana Snyder - Bill James (reviewer)
BOOKS: ORIGINS: An Atlas of Human Migration edited by Russell King - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 29 March 2008
COVER STORY: The truth about Australia's birth rate - Catherine Sheehan
EDITORIAL: NSW electricity to be privatised? - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Opposition needs new policies, not stunts
WATER: Time to build new reservoirs - Patrick J. Byrne
QUARANTINE: EI inquiry flags major changes to horse quarantine - Peter Westmore
INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Rudd Government to re-examine FTAs - Colin Teese
ENVIRONMENT: Conference rejects climate change alarmism - Peter Westmore
HIGH SCHOOLS: School: ladder of opportunity or game of snakes and ladders? - Mark Lopez
HUMAN RIGHTS: Behind Beijing's crackdown in Tibet - Peter Westmore
UNITED STATES: California court attacks parental rights
DRUGS: Australia's complicity in global drugs menace - David Perrin
UNITED NATIONS: Feminist frolics at the UN - Babette Francis
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Muslim attacks forcing Jews out of Paris suburbs / School vouchers flourishing in Sweden / Coal tipped to be world's top energy source
MEDIA: ABC's take on Islamic school controversy - John Miller
CINEMA: BELLA: A gentle film with a big heart - David Perrin (reviewer)
BOOKS: DARWIN DAY IN AMERICA: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by John G. West - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOKS: ISLAND OF THE LOST by Joan Druett - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 15 March 2008
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Will the economy spoil Rudd's party?
THE ECONOMY: Higher interest rates the wrong way to cut inflation - Patrick J. Byrne
EDITORIAL: Horse flu: Canberra makes the victims pay - Peter Westmore
PREDATORY PRICING: Defending small business and farmers - Frank Zumbo
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Ten concerns about Rudd's first 100 days - Bill Muehlenberg
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Warmer oceans? / Revenge of the nerds / The left assault on the student mind - Max Teichmann
ENVIRONMENT: Climate change: fallacies in the Garnaut report - Peter Westmore
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Time for moratorium on abortion? - Babette Francis
CHINA: Beijing's human rights record: why we must act - David Matas
ASIA: Sri Lanka at the brink - Dr John Whitehall
RUSSIA: From Putin to Medvedev: a new Russia? - John Miller
EASTERN EUROPE: Communist old guard still not defeated -  Joseph Poprzeczny
Fuel price deception (letter) - Frank Bellet
The real 'stolen generation' (letter) - L.B. Loveday
BOOKS: UNSTOPPABLE GLOBAL WARMING Every 1,500 Years, by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery - Dr Jay Lehr (reviewer)
BOOKS: THEIR DARKEST HOUR: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII, by Laurence Rees - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 1 March 2008
COVER STORY: The Australian economy a 'house of cards' - Patrick J. Byrne
EDITORIAL: Timor troubles: the way ahead - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: What remains to be done after saying sorry?
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Brian Burke and Kevin Rudd cross paths again - Joseph Poprzeczny
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Economic policy-making in conflict - Colin Teese
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Hysteria in the House / US election campaign / "Say sorry" segment / The economy - Max Teichmann
ISLAM: Uproar over Archbishop of Canterbury's Islam gaffe - Dr Christopher J. Ward
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: Why Australia's Christian heritage matters - Charles Francis QC
HUMAN RIGHTS: The 2008 Olympics and China's Communist regime - Peter Westmore
TAIWAN: Chen: Almost over, but not out - Jeffry Babb
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Australia and Japan set to draw closer together - Sharif Shuja
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Global warming? It's the coldest winter in decades / Capitalism's enemies within
Reality gap between words and action (letter) - M. Gordon
Wentworth's vision for Australian railways (letter) - Kevin O'Neill
Thuggery at Brisbane pro-life rally (letter) - John McMahon
The struggling Rudds (letter) - Frank Bellet
BOOKS: IT'S YOUR TIME YOU'RE WASTING: A teacher's tales of classroom hell, by Frank Chalk - James Gilchrist (reviewer)
BOOKS: CAPTAIN BLIGH'S OTHER MUTINY, by Stephen Dando-Collins - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 16 February 2008
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Battle lines drawn for US Presidential race - Peter Westmore
EDITORIAL: Mitsubishi closure a blow to our manufacturing - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Will Rudd summit achieve anything?
BIOFUELS: Sugar industry - execution by policy madness - Patrick J. Byrne
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: EI inquiry hears of more quarantine failures - Peter Westmore
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: The lessons of the past we so quickly forget - Colin Teese
STRAWS IN THE WIND: A new Bunyip intelligentsia? / Paddy McGuinness dies / The homeless - Max Teichmann
ASIA: Re-shaping Asia: The Great Game Mark II - Warren Reed
INDONESIA: More good than bad: Suharto (1921-2008) - Jeffry Babb
FATHERHOOD: Making men redundant (and harming our children) - Bill Muehlenberg
FAMILY POLICY: Family-friendly policies at risk - John Morrissey
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Melbourne doctor's bid to decriminalise abortion - Charles Francis QC
UNITED STATES: America's wrong course - Patrick Buchanan
LEADERSHIP: Five keys to democratic statesmanship - Paul Johnson
Demise of The Bulletin (letter) - Nicholas Partridge
Re-opening of South Gippsland rail? (letter) - Bryan Finlay
Foreign intervention (letter) - Colin Teese
The "more committees" fetish (letter) - M. Gordon
BOOKS: WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT CHRISTIANITY, by Dinesh D'Souza - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
BOOKS: CLASSICS: 62 Great Books from the Iliad to Midnight's Children, by Jane Gleeson-White - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 2 February 2008
COVER STORY: TRANSPORT: End of the line for rail freight? - Antony O'Brien
FINANCE: Sub-prime mortgage crisis paralyses credit system - Patrick J. Byrne
EDITORIAL: East Timor's new beginning - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Economic storm facing new government
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: A stern test for multiculturalism - John Miller
CULTURE AND CIVILISATION: Family values overlooked in the market-place - John Ballantyne
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Reading the signs for the New Year (Through a hedge backwards...) / Hijacking foreign aid / Sub-prime lending crisis / Was Hitler's defeat inevitable? - Max Teichmann
AFGHANISTAN: Confronting terrorists and the drug trade - Sharif Shuja
WOMEN UNDER ISLAM: Silence of the "sisterhood" - Babette Francis
EDUCATION: The threat to our literary heritage - Kevin Donnelly
OPINION: Who is the real Kevin Rudd? - Brian Peachey
Global warming? Stop and think! (letter) - Bob Brooks
Flaws in our voting system (letter) - L.B. Loveday
Who is running the country? (letter) - M. Gordon
Barack Obama on foreign despots (letter) - Frank Bellet
Alternative to capitalism and communism? (letter) - John G. Keegan AM
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Juvenile crime in Britain / Feminist magazine's anti-Israel bias
GOD AND CAESAR: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society by Cardinal George Pell - Peter Westmore (reviewer)
BOOKS: CULTURAL AMNESIA: Notes in the Margin of My Time, by Clive James - Bill James (reviewer)
THE TORCH AND THE SWORD: A History of the Army Cadet Movement in Australia, by Craig A. Stockings - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
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Contents - 22 December 2007
EDITORIAL: Bali climate conference disconnected from reality - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Liberals not knowing which way to turn
FILM CLASSIFICATION: Porn film case dismissed by Federal Court - Mary-Louise Fowler
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Can Rudd restore an impartial public service? - Colin Teese
FOREIGN DEBT: Last chance to avoid becoming a banana republic? - Patrick J. Byrne
QUARANTINE: AQIS locks stable door after horse flu has bolted - Peter Westmore
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: US and Israel differ over Iran nuclear capabilities - Peter Coates
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Christmas miscellany / Shopping spree / If the Liberals keep their nerve / One way of spending the surplus / Developing expensive tastes - Max Teichmann
GENOCIDE: Stalin's Ukrainian famine - the Holodomor - Michael Lawriwsky
OPINION: Four factors that have shaped the new PM - Jeffry Babb
OPINION: Trojan Horse inside Amnesty International - Babette Francis
The abused generation (letter) - Dr Arnold Jago
John Howard's dignified farewell (letter) - Frank Bellet
Asbestos cynicism (letter) - M. Gordon
Malthusian spectre (letter) - Damian Wyld
CHRISTMAS POEM: The adoration of the Magi - John Kelly
CINEMA: The Golden Compass - well-crafted fantasy film 'about killing God' - Damian Wyld
BOOKS: THIRD WAYS: Family-centred economies and why they disappeared, by Allan C. Carlson - Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer)
BOOKS: THE MINEFIELD by Greg Lockhart, ON PATROL WITH THE SAS by Gary McKay - Michael E. Daniel
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Contents -8 December 2007
EDITORIAL: After the landslide: the challenges ahead - Peter Westmore
CULTURE: Dealing girls a raw and racy deal - Melinda Tankard Reist
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Has the Liberal Party any future?
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Can Australia avoid an economic downturn? - Colin Teese
WATER: Vehement opposition to permanent water-trade - Patrick J. Byrne
QUARANTINE: Horse flu inquiry exposes AQIS's abject failure - Peter Westmore
NATIONAL SECURITY: We have met the enemy, and he is us - John Miller
STRAWS IN THE WIND: The WHY and HOW of Labor's victory / Now for the Delphic Oracle ... - Max Teichmann
CULTURE: Dealing girls a raw and racy deal - Melinda Tankard Reist
SCIENCE: People will marry robots, scientist predicts - Bill Muehlenberg
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Abortion link to pre-term birth and cerebral palsy - Babette Francis
MEDICINE: Dolly's creator abandons therapeutic cloning - Peter Westmore
OPINION: William Wilberforce's lessons for us today - David Perrin
Bad economics (letter) - Chris Hilder
Ten points for Kevin Rudd (letter) - John Kelly
DLP resurgence (letter) - Peter Kavanagh MP
AS THE WORLD TURNS
BOOKS: PRINCE OF THE CHURCH: Patrick Francis Moran, 1830-1911, by Philip Ayres - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
BOOKS: CONJUGAL AMERICA: On the Public Purposes of Marriage, by Allan Carlson - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
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Contents -24 November 2007
EDITORIAL: 2007 Federal Election contest enters final round - Peter Westmore
CANBERRA OBSERVED: John Howard's last-ditch pitch to voters
COVER STORY: Islam and the future - Nonie Darwish
WATER: Governments raid irrigation water - Patrick J. Byrne
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Musharraf takes Pakistan to the brink of chaos - Peter Westmore
ASIA: Can Taiwan resist falling into China's orbit? - Warren Reed
PACIFIC: Power struggle behind alleged Fiji coup - Peter Westmore
STRAWS IN THE WIND: John Howard's last hurrah? / Putin's new Russian empire / Junk-food on children's television / Corruption in Victoria / Banking on Kevin Rudd - Max Teichmann
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: The unacknowledged elephant in the room - Babette Francis
OPINION: Pro-life outcry for dolphins, but not for humans - Bill Muehlenberg
OPINION: Economics isn't everything - Jeffry Babb
SCHOOLS: The case for external, competitive exams - Kevin Donnelly
CULTURE AND CIVILISATION: The massive assault on Judeo-Christian values - Mark Braham
Why education has been captured by the Left (letter) - John Kelly
Culprit of centralisation? (letter) - John R. Barich
BOOKS: COMRADES: A History Of World Communism, by Robert Service - Bill James (reviewer)
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Contents -10 November 2007
COVER STORY: Farmers' protest in Canberra over national water plan
EDITORIAL: Howard and Rudd - the Coke vs. Pepsi election? - Peter Westmore
RURAL CRISIS: Crocodile tears and hand-wringing over drought - Ben Rees
CANBERRA OBSERVED: Why voters have turned on John Howard
INTERNATIONAL TRADE: China's aggressive trade strategy pays off - Colin Teese
FOREIGN INVESTMENT: Risk for Australia in dependence on China - Jeffry Babb
PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Overdue steps to ensure open government - Joseph Poprzeczny
STRAWS IN THE WIND: Victoria's hospital fiasco / Shooting fish in a barrel / Misreading America - Max Teichmann
POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES: How family-friendly is the free market? - Senator Steve Fielding
DRUGS POLICY: Illicit drugs and the federal election - David Perrin
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Exposing the abortion-breast cancer link - Tim Cannon
OPINION: A Rudd election win will be a disaster - Brian Peachey
OBITUARY: A Labor Party statesman remembered - Hon. Kim Edward Beazley Snr. AO (1917-2007) - Joseph Poprzeczny
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Christian foster-parents face deregistration / Marital status and poverty - study
BOOKS: CREATORS: From Chaucer to Walt Disney, by Paul Johnson - Bill James (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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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
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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