Table of Contents - 09 Oct 2004

• ELECTION 2004: Will Labor, Liberal big-spending promises swing voters?
• EDITORIAL: Election auction ignores the real challenge (Peter Westmore)
• NATIONAL PARTY: John Anderson accused of misleading voters (Pat Byrne)
• EDUCATION: Behind Labor's church school 'hit list' (Dr Kevin Donnelly)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: The outlaw seas and international terrorism / Renaissance of Australian unionism? (Max Teichmann)
• FEDERAL ELECTION: Major parties gag candidates
• BIOETHICS: Embryo research and the tooth fairy (Babette Francis)
• MEDICINE: Coma arousal therapy: Dr Ted Freeman's treatment for PVS patients (David Perrin)
• DRUGS: Parents reject marijuana decriminalisation
• AGEING: Wanted: Loving family to adopt 'granddad au pair' (Peter Popham)
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS: End the UN political stand-off against Taiwan (Osman Chia)
• CHINA: Hong Kong elections a clear win for democracy (Jeffry Babb)
• INDIA: Secularism an absolute necessity for India (Sharif Shuja)
• POLITICAL IDEAS: Ten principles of a property-owning democracy (Allan Carlson)
• Taiwan's exclusion from UN unjustified (letter) (Harrison Liao)
• Australia needs infrastructure (letter) (Kevin O'Neill)
• Time for men's policy (letter) (Alan Barron)
• BOOKS: ANTI-AMERICANISM, by Jean-François Revel (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
• BOOKS: THE EMPTY CRADLE, by Phillip Longman (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books