Table of Contents - 18 Dec 2004

• EDITORIAL: Dr Strangeloves' Brave New World (Peter Westmore)
• ECONOMICS: Australia's $403 billion foreign debt: hail the banana republic! (Pat Byrne)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Utter failure of the Latham experiment
• NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Where Labor failed itself - and Australia (Colin Teese)
• SCHOOL EDUCATION: 'Fuzzy maths' doesn't add up (Dr Kevin Donnelly)
• INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY: Telcos in bed with pornographers (Tim Wallace)
• ABORTION: Late-term abortion in Australia (Richard Egan)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Eureka - we lost it! / The coming down of the wall / Favourite Books / Home alone (Max Teichmann)
• EASTERN EUROPE: Ukraine turns to the West? (Peter Westmore)
• PAKISTAN: Military corruption robs country's poor (Sharif Shuja)
• UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Kofi Annan must resign (Senator Norm Coleman)
• Long live Eureka (letter) (Dr Peter Hunt)
• Kath and Kim land (letter) (Greg Byrne)
• Crusades re-examined (letter) (Damian Wyld)
• CINEMA: Japanese animation sweeping the West (Victor Sirl)
• BOOKS: D-DAY, by Martin Gilbert (John Ballantyne (reviewer))
• BOOKS: THE DICTATORS: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, by Richard Overy (Bill James (reviewer))
• BOOKS: EPIDEMIC: How Teen Sex is Killing our Kids, by Meg Meeker MD (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
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