Table of Contents - 16 Jul 2005

• COVER STORY: Federal Labor's crisis of identity
• EDITORIAL: Decisive shift in US Supreme Court (Peter Westmore)
• LABOR PARTY: The lesson Labor still has to learn (Trevor Smith)
• WORKPLACE RELATIONS: No more hurdles for Howard's dismissal laws (Colin Teese)
• RURAL AFFAIRS: Confronting the myths about agriculture (Pat Byrne)
• CENTRAL ASIA: China's march on central Asia (Dr Sharif Shuja)
• REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY: The dark downside of donor insemination (Richard Egan)
• PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY: Defending the role of parliament (Senator Brian Harradine)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: US fury at Israeli arms sales to China / Not helping the poor / Turn of the tide? / Government's embarrassment (Max Teichmann)
• OPINION: Free speech under attack in Victoria (Babette Francis)
• Howard Government's attack on Australian workers (letter) (Jim Manwaring)
• Why the silence over abortion? (letter) (Dr. A.W. Hartwig)
• Ignorance no excuse (letter) (John R. Barich)
• High price of extra water (letter) (Chris Rule)
• To rule or to govern is the question (letter) (Greg O'Regan)
• Malaria worse than DDT (letter) (Greg Byrne)
• BOOKS: THE CUBE AND THE CATHEDRAL: Europe, America, and Politics without God, by George Weigel (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
• BOOKS: MAO: THE UNKNOWN STORY, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Peter Westmore (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books