Table of Contents - 27 Oct 2007

• EDITORIAL: Key issues that could determine the election outcome (Peter Westmore)
• QUEENSLAND: ALP cannot escape Heiner affair (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Is Kevin Rudd set to trounce the Coalition
• SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Surprises in store in SA's federal poll (Tom Walmsley)
• VICTORIA: Abortion - an inadequate inquiry (Charles Francis QC)
• EQUINE INFLUENZA INQUIRY: AQIS quarantine protocol a sick joke (Peter Westmore)
• ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Global financial crisis - is the end in sight? (Colin Teese)
• SCHOOLS: Surviving ideological bias in the classroom (Mark Lopez)
• EDUCATION: What can Australian schools learn from Asia? (Jeffry Babb)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Theatre of the bull-ring / More significant than the election (Max Teichmann)
• SPECIAL FEATURE: Australian Aborigines at the crossroads (Mal Brough)
• UNITED STATES: Has the US forgotten the importance of soft power? (Sharif Shuja)
• OPINION: Violent Jihadism - this century's nightmare (Mark Braham)
• AS THE WORLD TURNS:
• BOOKS: DEFENDING LIFE: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice, by Francis J. Beckwith (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
• BOOKS: LIONHEART AND LACKLAND: King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest, by Frank J. McLynn (Micheal E. Daniel (reviewer))
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