Table of Contents - 24 Nov 2007

• EDITORIAL: 2007 Federal Election contest enters final round (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: John Howard's last-ditch pitch to voters
• COVER STORY: Islam and the future (Nonie Darwish)
• WATER: Governments raid irrigation water (Patrick J. Byrne)
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Musharraf takes Pakistan to the brink of chaos (Peter Westmore)
• ASIA: Can Taiwan resist falling into China's orbit? (Warren Reed)
• PACIFIC: Power struggle behind alleged Fiji coup (Peter Westmore)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: John Howard's last hurrah? / Putin's new Russian empire / Junk-food on children's television / Corruption in Victoria / Banking on Kevin Rudd (Max Teichmann)
• REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: The unacknowledged elephant in the room (Babette Francis)
• OPINION: Pro-life outcry for dolphins, but not for humans (Bill Muehlenberg)
• OPINION: Economics isn't everything (Jeffry Babb)
• SCHOOLS: The case for external, competitive exams (Kevin Donnelly)
• CULTURE AND CIVILISATION: The massive assault on Judeo-Christian values (Mark Braham)
• Why education has been captured by the Left (letter) (John Kelly)
• Culprit of centralisation? (letter) (John R. Barich)
• BOOKS: COMRADES: A History Of World Communism, by Robert Service (Bill James (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books