Table of Contents - 28 Oct 2006

• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Media laws: dramatic change or maintaining status quo?
• EDITORIAL: Water trading: what it's all about (Peter Westmore)
• TECHNOLOGY: Beijing bid to steal Australia's secret military technology (Peter Westmore)
• TRADE: The fate of Australian agriculture under globalisation (Colin Teese)
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS: East Timor: the Cubans are coming
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Kofi and friends, Obituary wars, Skills shortages and literacy shortages (Max Teichmann)
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS: New strategy needed for global security, prosperity (Sharf Shuja)
• SPECIAL FEATURE: What globalism is doing to 'Middle America'
• EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH: Embryonic stem cells: fraud and fairy tales (Babette Francis)
• ENERGY: Hot rocks: is geothermal heat the way ahead for power generation?
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS: North Korean nuclear test: implications for Middle East (Peter Westmore)
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Empowering women: Israeli bid to curb Islamist extremism (Joe Poprzeczny)
• Kyoto protocol (letter) (J. Mangan)
• Queensland election (letter) (Robert Bom)
• Margaret Whitlam (letter) (Frank Bellet)
• BOOKS: THE PARTNERSHIP, by Greg Sheridan (Peter Westmore (reviewer))
• BOOKS: THE DEATH OF ADAM, by Marilynne Robinson (Brian Coman (reviewer))
• NEWS WEEKLY BOOKS