Table of Contents - 02 Jul 2005

• COVER STORY: Unanswered questions about the Chinese defectors (John Miller)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Senator Brian Harradine retires
• EDITORIAL: How best to help our children (Peter Westmore)
• TRADE: 'Benign neglect' no answer to debt crisis (Colin Teese)
• RURAL POLICY: Water trade to shift water from farms to cities (Pat Byrne)
• QUARANTINE: Government appeals against court ruling (Pat Byrne)
• TASMANIA: Potato-farmers' outrage at fast-food giant
• ABORTION: Feminist luddites of the abortion lobby (Babette Francis)
• RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: Christianity under threat in Sri Lanka (Dr John Whitehall)
• HUMANITARIAN CRISIS: East Timor in grip of major famine
• ENERGY: China exchanges nuclear technology for Iranian oil (Dr Sharif Shuja)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: The improvident society / A pub with no beer / Beazley's tax strategy / To Hell and back (Max Teichmann)
• Europe's malaise (letter) (R.B. Dewar)
• Colin Teese on Europe (letter) (John R. Barich)
• Strategy to prevent bushfires (letter) (R.L. Burke AFSM)
• Big Brother: sewage on TV (letter) (Frank Bellet)
• Child support reforms (letter) (Janos Paskandy)
• BOOKS: GAY MARRIAGE: Why it is good for gays, good for straights, and good for America (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
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