Contents - 16 Feb 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) News Weekly Books

Sir,

I agree with Mr L.B. Loveday ("Flaws in our voting system", Letters, News Weekly, February 2, 2008), at least on one point.

He speaks of "the arrogance to send monitors to other countries".

Regardless of the merits or otherwise of Australia's voting system, it ill behoves us to intervene in, or opine on, the electoral processes of others.

The same is, incidentally, true of interventions in the electoral processes of any state by any other at any time.

Colin Teese,
Parkville Vic.
 
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