Table of Contents - 26 Feb 2005

• COVER STORY: NATIONAL AFFAIRS: The WMC takeover - losing our last mining giant
• EDITORIAL: A challenge to the biotech corporations? (Peter Westmore)
• SCHOOLS: The battle for our children's minds (Kevin Donnelly)
• SPECIAL FEATURE: 1.5 million dead Armenians (but don't tell the EU) (R.J. Stove)
• ECONOMICS: Australia's plight in dire need of a remedy (Colin Teese)
• SUGAR INDUSTRY: Anger at stalled sugar package (Pat Byrne)
• ENERGY: Ethanol needed for new fuel, engine standards (Pat Byrne)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Conspiracy against public health / Half a loaf is better than one / Palm oil - a New Class aphrodisiac (Max Teichmann)
• IRAQ: Shi'ite win in Iraq elections vindicates US role (Peter Westmore)
• CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS: China's anti-secession law raises tension (Peter Westmore)
• CHINA: Beijing's ban on sex-selective abortion (Joseph A. D'Agostino)
• POPULATION: Why Australia must decentralise to new states now (Don Ford)
• OPINION: The tsunami of bias (Babette Francis)
• The Holocaust Industry (letter) (Mark Braham)
• Communist killings (letter) (P.C. Wilson)
• Putin a second Stolypin? (letter) (David M. Abbott)
• The Left and the Iraq War (letter) (Peter Young)
• Misinformation about WW2 bombing (letter) (Jack Thomas)
• No reaction to Dutch infanticide (letter) (Peter Darley)
• Link queried (letter) (M. Mitchell)
• Sure-fire recipe for disaster (letter) (R.B. Dewar)
• BOOKS: DAWKINS' GOD: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, by Alister McGrath (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
• BOOKS: GOD UNDER HOWARD: The Rise of the Religious Right in Australian Politics (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
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