Table of Contents - 14 Oct 2006

• COVER STORY: COMMONWEALTH-STATE RELATIONS: Will Howard override WA on natural gas? (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• EDITORIAL: Bushfires: an ounce of prevention (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Behind the move to lift cloning ban
• INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Farmers protests over free trade in Cairns
• TRADE POLICY: Why WTO trade talks failed (Colin Teese)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: The decline of Labor, the fate of Smith Street, Blair's departure and the Regensburg Address (Max Teichmann)
• NATIONAL AFFAIRS: T3 sell-off will not end Telstra's woes (Peter Westmore)
• HOUSING: Urban planning is destroying the great Australian dream (Bob Day OAM)
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS: North Korea's nuclear ambitions: is China really powerless? (Sharif Shuja)
• ANTI-LIFE CAMPAIGN: The selective indignation of Senator Stott Despoja (Babette Francis)
• OPINION: The case for optional preferential voting (David Perrin)
• BIOTECHNOLOGY: The ascent of Mount Improbable (Brian Coman)
• The debt trap (letter) (W.K. Allen)
• The Pope and Islam (letter) (Greg O'Regan)
• The Ice epidemic (letter) (David Perrin)
• BOOKS: LONDONISTAN: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within, by Melanie Phillips (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
• BOOKS: SCOURGE AND FIRE: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy, by Lauro Martines (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
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