Table of Contents - 29 Mar 2008

• COVER STORY: The truth about Australia's birth rate (Catherine Sheehan)
• EDITORIAL: NSW electricity to be privatised? (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Opposition needs new policies, not stunts
• WATER: Time to build new reservoirs (Patrick J. Byrne)
• QUARANTINE: EI inquiry flags major changes to horse quarantine (Peter Westmore)
• INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Rudd Government to re-examine FTAs (Colin Teese)
• ENVIRONMENT: Conference rejects climate change alarmism (Peter Westmore)
• HIGH SCHOOLS: School: ladder of opportunity or game of snakes and ladders? (Mark Lopez)
• HUMAN RIGHTS: Behind Beijing's crackdown in Tibet (Peter Westmore)
• UNITED STATES: California court attacks parental rights
• DRUGS: Australia's complicity in global drugs menace (David Perrin)
• UNITED NATIONS: Feminist frolics at the UN (Babette Francis)
• AS THE WORLD TURNS: Muslim attacks forcing Jews out of Paris suburbs / School vouchers flourishing in Sweden / Coal tipped to be world's top energy source
• MEDIA: ABC's take on Islamic school controversy (John Miller)
• CINEMA: BELLA: A gentle film with a big heart (David Perrin (reviewer))
• BOOKS: DARWIN DAY IN AMERICA: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by John G. West (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
• BOOKS: ISLAND OF THE LOST by Joan Druett (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
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