Table of Contents - 04 Feb 2006

• EDITORIAL: Bushfires: the lessons of history (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Unanswered questions about oil-for-food scam
• NATIONAL SECURITY: How prepared are our intelligence agencies? (John Miller)
• INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Australia left holding trade's $1-billion-dollar baby (Martin Feil)
• TAXATION: Government's dilemma - "future fund" or tax cuts? (John Ballantyne)
• PRIMARY PRODUCTION: SA egg producers at breaking point (Damian Wyld)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Some like it hot / Thatcher the chemist / Turks in denial (Max Teichmann)
• AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY: Whatever has gone wrong with sex? (Dr Kerrie Allen)
• SCHOOLS: Subversive agenda of multicultural education (Kevin Donnelly)
• EMBRYO EXPERIMENTATION: Cells, lies and Korea-gate (Babette Francis)
• HEALTH: 4,000 submissions to RU-486 abortion pill inquiry (Peter Westmore)
• Civilisation's fragile fabric (letter) (Malcolm Harris)
• So, who's to blame? (letter) (Wally Eves)
• Packer 'dumbed down' Australia (letter) (Brian A. Peachey)
• CINEMA: Good Night, and Good Luck: Hollywood spin on the McCarthy era (Bill James (reviewer))
• BOOKS: The Pope Benedict Code, by Joanna Bogle (Michael Gilchrist (reviewer))
• BOOKS: What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman (Frank Gashumba (reviewer))
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