Table of Contents - 25 Nov 2006

• COVER STORY: CLIMATE CHANGE: An appeal to reason: the economics and politics of climate change (Lord Nigel Lawson)
• EDITORIAL: Water infrastructure needed, not gimmicks (Peter Westmore)
• AUSTRALIA'S DROUGHT: COAG's free trade in water threatens farmers
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Howard's loyalty to U.S. faces severe test
• UNITED STATES: U.S. voter backlash against Bush's Iraq war (John Miller)
• IRAQ WAR: Bush runs out of options (Peter Westmore)
• THE ECONOMY: Wishful thinking about agriculture, manufacturing (Colin Teese)
• WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Taped calls incriminate ex-premier, minister (Joe Poprzeczny)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Sinister side to lunatic fringe / The gentle art of blackening reputations / Faces of vulnerability / The old refrain? (Max Teichmann)
• ISLAM: What we must know about Islam (Bill Muehlenberg)
• HUMAN CLONING: Patterson's curse - the Frankenbunny (Babette Francis)
• Lies, cowardice and cloning (letter) (Dr David van Gend)
• Bouquet and brickbat for News Weekly (letter) (Dudley Carr)
• Optional preferential voting rejected (letter) (Bernie Lewis)
• Greenhouse superstitions (letter) (Ian W. Adie)
• Using children as spies (letter) (Greg O'Regan)
• BOOKS: INSIDE THE ASYLUM: Why the UN and Old Europe are Worse Than You Think, by Jed Babbin (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
• BOOKS: THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, by Antony Beevor (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
• NEWS WEEKLY BOOKS