Table of Contents - 27 May 2006

• EDITORIAL: Nuclear energy - Australia's pivotal role (Peter Westmore)
• THE ECONOMY: The Budget - populist and unsustainable (Colin Teese)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Labor leadership rumblings
• NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Snowy Hydro's privatisation is theft (Peter Westmore)
• INTELLIGENCE BRIEF: Will new personnel save CIA and ASIO? (John Miller)
• PRIMARY PRODUCE: Pernicious policies killing Australia's dairy farmers (Michael Kearney)
• WESTERN AUSTRALIA : Inquiry rejects Kimberley fresh water plan (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Indonesia and the islands / Victoria's new Liberal leader / More on that second oldest profession (Max Teichmann)
• POLITICS: Plight of families under uncontrolled capitalism (Allan Carlson)
• INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: China forms strategic alliance with Russia (Sharif Shuja)
• OBITUARY: Jean-François Revel (1924-2006) (John Ballantyne)
• Another view of Family First (letter) (Gerard Goiran)
• DLP not eclipsed by Family First (letter) (Peter Kavanagh)
• Time for a Pacific Youth Corps? (letter) (Gerald W. Hunt)
• Blame government for house prices (letter) (Bob Day)
• BOOKS: The Victory of Reason: How Christianity led to freedom, capitalism, and Western success, by Rodney Stark (Peter Westmore (reviewer))
• BOOKS: Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland, by Carmen Callil (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books