Table of Contents - 12 Apr 2008

• COVER STORY: Red Star over Canberra (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• EDITORIAL: Behind the bid for UN Security Council seat (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd's ideas summit looms
• BIOFUELS: Ethanol doesn't have to compete with food (Patrick J. Byrne)
• QUARANTINE: AQIS blamed for equine influenza outbreak (Peter Westmore)
• FINANCE: Right and wrong way to tackle financial crisis (Colin Teese)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: The American elections / Rudd's honesty / Conservative blues / NATO's fastidious peace-keeping (Max Teichmann)
• TAIWAN: KMT victory paves way for improved China ties (Jeffry Babb)
• EUROPE: The Dutch disease - how low can you go? (Bill Muehlenberg)
• BIOETHICS: Man - a vanishing species? (Babette Francis)
• OPINION: Twilight of the British Raj (Mark Braham)
• AS THE WORLD TURNS: Beijing's one-child policy a demographic powder-keg / A nation of dunces? / Fragility of the affluent society
• High cost of foregoing trade deal (letter) (John R. Barich)
• Finlandisation? (letter) (Paul Jeffery)
• News Weekly's stand on global-warming (letter) (P.C. Wilson)
• Earth Hour a silly idea (letter) (Alan Barron)
• BOOKS: THE LITERACY WARS: teaching children to read and write in Australia by Ilana Snyder (Bill James (reviewer))
• BOOKS: ORIGINS: An Atlas of Human Migration edited by Russell King (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books