Table of Contents - 11 Sep 2004

• COVER STORY: Battle lines drawn for October 9 Federal poll (Peter Westmore)
• EDITORIAL: Issues for the Federal Election (Peter Westmore)
• FAMILY: Better deal demanded for families (John Ballantyne)
• NOT SO DRY CONTINENT: Australia has water options (Pat Byrne)
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Taiwan faces continuing threats from Beijing (Peter Westmore)
• POPULATION: Falling birth-rates stir action in Taiwan, Singapore (Jeffry Babb)
• INDIA: The economic test for India's new government (Sharif Shuja)
• PEACE-KEEPING: Sudan and the progressive mind (Geoffrey Partington)
• OPINION: The case for new states in Australia (Don Ford)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Howard versus New Class Labor / Tap Tap. Who's there? (Max Teichmann)
• CINEMA: Bus 174 - A jolting, two-hour masterpiece (R.J. Stove)
• CLIMATE: Global warming - the sceptics have won (Patrick Michaels)
• DEMOCRACY: Lay your hammer down (Dr Edwin J. Feulner)
• Labor's foot-soldiers (letter) (Frank Bellet)
• Mondragon: a rejoinder (letter) (Dr Peter Hunt)
• The West and Islam (letter) (John R. Barich)
• BOOKS: The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French defeat in Vietnam (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
• BOOKS: 7 Myths of Working Mothers, by Suzanne Venker (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books