Table of Contents - 13 May 2006

• COVER STORY: Twilight for Australia's fishing industry? (Pat Byrne)
• EDITORIAL: Race riots reveal China's hand in Oceania (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Defence - incompetence and bungles galore
• NATIONAL AFFAIRS: A political vacuum waiting to be filled
• POLITICS: WA Liberals, Nationals in self-destruct mode (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Darfur tragedy / Not all the world loves a soldier / Judicial politics / When half a glass is half empty (Max Teichmann)
• SCHOOLS: Great books trashed by radical teachers (Kevin Donnelly)
• RAILWAYS: A transport revolution for Australia? (Jacinta Cummins)
• ENERGY: US opens new ethanol plant every 10 days (Pat Byrne)
• ISLAM: Is Islam really a religion of peace? (Bill Muehlenberg)
• ABORTION: National senator's key role in RU-486 fiasco (Babette Francis)
• FAMILY: Co-habiting couples and child neglect (Howard Center)
• NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION: Could US-India nuclear deal undermine security? (Sharif Shuja)
• Chinese slave labour and state-sanctioned murder (letter) (Chris Rule)
• RU-486 abortion drug 'deeply scary' (letter) (Robert Bom)
• Motherhood devalued (letter) (Sean Duffy)
• What about jobs for men? (letter) (Alan Barron)
• BOOKS: GENTLE REGRETS: Thoughts from a Life, by Roger Scruton (John Ballantyne (reviewer))
• BOOKS: THE DISORGANISED COMMUNITY, by John P. Kennedy (Kevin Ivens (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books