Table of Contents - 12 Feb 2005

• COVER STORY: Kim Beazley - Labor's only hope?
• EDITORIAL: Barking up the wrong tree ... (Peter Westmore)
• NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Top free-market think-tank warns of 'banana republic' (Pat Byrne)
• SPECIAL FEATURE: Who speaks and acts for the communist dead? (Christopher J. Ward)
• BUSHFIRES: COAG inquiry skirts the real issues (Peter Westmore)
• VICTORIA: Judge links pornography and sexual assault (Peter Westmore)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Iraq election and the problem of Iran / Bushrangers hanging around the hospitals / Climbing the ladder to nowhere (MaxTeichmann)
• INTERNATIONAL TRADE: US trade deals marginalise WTO (Colin Teese)
• EAST ASIA: US's new strategy in the Far East (Dr Sharif Shuja)
• CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS: First direct flights from Taiwan to mainland (Jeffry Babb)
• OPINION: Good riddance to compulsory student unionism (Aaron Russell)
• The slaughtered generation (letter) (Dr David van Gend)
• The Governor-General and the Constitution (letter) (S. Morgan)
• CINEMA: Quality French film wins following - Les Choristes (R.J. Stove)
• BOOKS: THE NEW AGRARIAN MIND, by Allan Carlson (Pat Byrne (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books - More Great Reads