Table of Contents - 08 Jan 2005

• COVER STORY: DEMOCRACY: How free societies perish (Andre Maurois)
• EDITORIAL: New direction in Aboriginal policy (Peter Westmore)
• NATIONAL AFFAIRS: The bubble economy - can it last?
• AGRICULTURE: Getting rural policy on track (Pat Byrne)
• LIVESTOCK: 18,100 livestock farmers gone (Pat Byrne)
• OPINION: Post-Latham: now for a real Third Way (Vern Hughes)
• AUSTRALIA'S CONSTITUTION: The Governor-General is our head of state (Sir David Smith)
• LIFE AND FAITH: The quest for meaning in James McAuley (Peter Westmore)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: La Ronde / A quarry and a hard place / National politics / Maritime terrorism (Max Teichmann)
• OBITUARY: Vale Pat Edward Conway (1932-2004) (Victor Sirl)
• EUTHANASIA: Continent Death: Euthanasia in Europe (Wesley J. Smith)
• Left's educational legacy (letter) (Marcus L'Estrange)
• BOOKS: HUMAN DIGNITY IN THE BIOTECH CENTURY: A Christian vision for public policy (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
• BOOKS: TREASON: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, by Ann Coulter (Charles Francis, AM, RFD, QC (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books - Best Sellers of 2004