Table of Contents - 28 Apr 2007

• COVER STORY: East Timor election: what's cooking? (Peter Westmore)
• EDITORIAL: Implications of East Timor's election (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd's character under scrutiny
• OVERSEAS TRADE: Wheat-growers back single-desk selling (Patrick J. Byrne)
• MANUFACTURING: Japan still shows the way (Dr John Blakemore)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Easter and the media / Literacy, and all that / Anzac Day / Jews and Muslims / Pre-Budget ruminations (Max Teichmann)
• DAVID HICKS AFFAIR: Media's blind eye to Hicks treason (Mark Braham)
• THE COLD WAR: How Moscow framed Pope Pius XII as pro-Nazi (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• GREAT BRITAIN: Why Britain is no longer great (Bill Muehlenberg)
• PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: Lottery players fleeced for $100 million (Tony O'Brien)
• ETHICS: New safeguard for vulnerable patients (David Perrin)
• HEALTH: Married gays die 24 years younger (Babette Francis)
• OBITUARY: Dr John Billings (1918-2007) and the Culture of Life (Anna Krohn)
• AS THE WORLD TURNS: The unmarriage revolution / Unexpected outbreak of morality / Mediocrity on the march / Children recruited to spy for Big Brother
• Antidotes to narcissism (letter) (William D. Craig)
• Problems with surrogacy (letter) (Arnold Jago)
• Politicised public service (letter) (Mike Fagan)
• Bell tolls for national icon (letter) (Robert Ettery)
• CINEMA: Spartan sacrifice that saved Greece (Damian Wyld (reviewer))
• BOOKS: WHY POLITICS NEEDS RELIGION, by Brendan Sweetman (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
• BOOKS: BACKS TO THE WALL: A larrikin on the Western Front, by G.D. Mitchell with Robert Macklin (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
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