Table of Contents - 22 Dec 2007

• EDITORIAL: Bali climate conference disconnected from reality (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Liberals not knowing which way to turn
• FILM CLASSIFICATION: Porn film case dismissed by Federal Court (Mary-Louise Fowler)
• NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Can Rudd restore an impartial public service? (Colin Teese)
• FOREIGN DEBT: Last chance to avoid becoming a banana republic? (Patrick J. Byrne)
• QUARANTINE: AQIS locks stable door after horse flu has bolted (Peter Westmore)
• INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: US and Israel differ over Iran nuclear capabilities (Peter Coates)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Christmas miscellany / Shopping spree / If the Liberals keep their nerve / One way of spending the surplus / Developing expensive tastes (Max Teichmann)
• GENOCIDE: Stalin's Ukrainian famine - the Holodomor (Michael Lawriwsky)
• OPINION: Four factors that have shaped the new PM (Jeffry Babb)
• OPINION: Trojan Horse inside Amnesty International (Babette Francis)
• The abused generation (letter) (Dr Arnold Jago)
• John Howard's dignified farewell (letter) (Frank Bellet)
• Asbestos cynicism (letter) (M. Gordon)
• Malthusian spectre (letter) (Damian Wyld)
• CHRISTMAS POEM: The adoration of the Magi (John Kelly)
• CINEMA: The Golden Compass - well-crafted fantasy film 'about killing God' (Damian Wyld)
• BOOKS: THIRD WAYS: Family-centred economies and why they disappeared, by Allan C. Carlson (Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer))
• BOOKS: THE MINEFIELD by Greg Lockhart, ON PATROL WITH THE SAS by Gary McKay (Michael E. Daniel)
• News Weekly Books