Table of Contents - 03 Dec 2005

• COVER STORY: HIGHER EDUCATION: Top university accused of elitism (Colin Teese)
• EDITORIAL: Trade talks: smoke and mirrors (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Workplace changes set to change societal fabric
• SCHOOLS: Vouchers for schools - giving parents choice (Kevin Donnelly)
• PRIMARY PRODUCTION: Advantages of single-desk for Australian wheat (Ken Francis)
• SUGAR DEREGULATION: Beattie to abolish single selling-desk (Pat Byrne)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Working women and pensions / One hand washes another: European-style / Those were the days, my friend / The burning Bush (Max Teichmann)
• ABORTION PILL: Part of the disease, not part of the cure (Dr David van Gend)
• OPINION: The difficult dilemma of Australia's Muslims (Mark Braham)
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Why North Korea got one more chance (Dr Sharif Shuja)
• CULTURE AND SOCIETY: Great Russian writers on the riddle of humanity (Professor Gary Saul Morson)
• CINEMA: Three Australian films fall flat: The Proposition, Jewboy and Little Fish (Len Phillips (reviewer))
• BOOKS: The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge, by Nic Dunlop (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
• BOOKS: Victoria Cross: Australia's Finest and the Battles They Fought, by Anthony Staunton (Peter Westmore (reviewer))
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