Table of Contents - 02 Feb 2008

• COVER STORY: TRANSPORT: End of the line for rail freight? (Antony O'Brien)
• FINANCE: Sub-prime mortgage crisis paralyses credit system (Patrick J. Byrne)
• EDITORIAL: East Timor's new beginning (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Economic storm facing new government
• NATIONAL AFFAIRS: A stern test for multiculturalism (John Miller)
• CULTURE AND CIVILISATION: Family values overlooked in the market-place (John Ballantyne)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Reading the signs for the New Year (Through a hedge backwards...) / Hijacking foreign aid / Sub-prime lending crisis / Was Hitler's defeat inevitable? (Max Teichmann)
• AFGHANISTAN: Confronting terrorists and the drug trade (Sharif Shuja)
• WOMEN UNDER ISLAM: Silence of the "sisterhood" (Babette Francis)
• EDUCATION: The threat to our literary heritage (Kevin Donnelly)
• OPINION: Who is the real Kevin Rudd? (Brian Peachey)
• Global warming? Stop and think! (letter) (Bob Brooks)
• Flaws in our voting system (letter) (L.B. Loveday)
• Who is running the country? (letter) (M. Gordon)
• Barack Obama on foreign despots (letter) (Frank Bellet)
• Alternative to capitalism and communism? (letter) (John G. Keegan AM)
• AS THE WORLD TURNS: Juvenile crime in Britain / Feminist magazine's anti-Israel bias
• GOD AND CAESAR: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society by Cardinal George Pell (Peter Westmore (reviewer))
• BOOKS: CULTURAL AMNESIA: Notes in the Margin of My Time, by Clive James (Bill James (reviewer))
• THE TORCH AND THE SWORD: A History of the Army Cadet Movement in Australia, by Craig A. Stockings (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books