Table of Contents - 14 Apr 2007

• COVER STORY: Howard's Coalition - fewer options left as election looms
• EDITORIAL: The high cost of 'symbolic' politics (Peter Westmore)
• THE ENVIRONMENT: Bushfire victims take NSW, Vic govts to court (Peter Westmore)
• WATER: Details of PM's water plan - disaster for farmers (Patrick J. Byrne)
• NSW STATE ELECTION: When will Liberals, Nationals ever learn? (Jim Manwaring)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Why young people read less / NSW's Knight with the Mournful Countenance / Journalistic hooliganism / The Easter Rising (Max Teichmann)
• INTELLIGENCE CORNER: Losing the war on the home front / Assessing the terrorist threat (John Miller)
• SCHOOLS: Labor's standard threat to schools (Kevin Donnelly)
• MEDICAL SCIENCE: New developments in stem-cell science (Babette Francis)
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Australia caught between Beijing and Washington (Sharif Shuja)
• SRI LANKA: Bloodbath looms in war-torn Sri Lanka (our special correspondent)
• OPINION: An ABC of the ABC - a listener's guide (Bill James)
• AS THE WORLD TURNS
• Millions squandered (letter) (Alan Barron)
• Regional rail networks (letter) (Kevin O'Neill)
• Labor's Mugabe dilemma (letter) (M. Gordon)
• David Hicks (letter) (Bill Muehlenberg)
• Russia's Putin should not be demonised (letter) (David M. Abbott)
• CINEMA: Story to scare the daylights out of you - Lives of Others (Len Phillips (reviewer))
• BOOKS: How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer))
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