Table of Contents - 26 May 2007

• COVER STORY: CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd still in front
• EDITORIAL: East Timor: end of the Fretilin era? (Peter Westmore)
• HOUSING: Soaring house prices give illusion of wealth (Colin Teese)
• LABOR PARTY: Sir Rod Eddington, Labor's business guru (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• PRIMARY INDUSTRY: Vital issues in wheat single-desk decision (Patrick J. Byrne)
• OPINION: Family First takes on Howard's workplace laws (Steve Fielding)
• DRUGS CONFERENCE: Reality check needed on illicit drugs (Graeme Rule)
• SCHOOLS: Choice would be eroded by centralisation (Kevin Donnelly)
• INTELLIGENCE CORNER: Shssh - don't mention the war! (John Miller)
• WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: Politics could worsen global health pandemic (Cheng Wen-tsang)
• QUARANTINE: Drought used as excuse to relax quarantine standards (Patrick J. Byrne)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: No kangaroo meat - thank you very much / Tony Blair - a class act / Vladimir the Cruel / Turkey - between a rock and a hard place (Max Teichmann)
• UNITED STATES: US Supreme Court bans partial-birth abortion (Charles Francis QC)
• WORLD AFFAIRS: Islam: the questions which must be answered (Roger Scruton)
• States more accountable than Canberra (letter) (Doug Brown)
• Problems facing Brisbane-to-Melbourne rail-link (letter) (Kevin O'Neill)
• News Weekly informative, timely (letter) (John Leahy)
• The media and freedom of speech (letter) (Patrick O'Connell)
• CINEMA: A luminous film of great beauty (Anthony Krohn (reviewer))
• BOOKS: WHAT'S LEFT? How Liberals Lost Their Way, by Nick Cohen (Bill James (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books