Table of Contents - 26 Apr 2008

• COVER STORY: Too terrible to contemplate (John Miller)
• EDITORIAL: Torch relay highlights Beijing's human rights record (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Could Costello unite demoralised Liberals?
• MANUFACTURING: Car-making could be our flagship industry (Craig Milne)
• NEW ZEALAND: NZ Kiwibank now has 600,000 customers (Peter Westmore)
• WATER: Federal water policy will add to world food shortage (Patrick J. Byrne)
• ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Reaping the whirlwind of financial deregulation (Colin Teese)
• PROFILE: Other side of Australia's next Governor-General (Peter Westmore)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Life is a cabaret / Nepal / Bitter fruits / Russia and China / Swan song? / The skaters' waltz / Rice / Ingrid Betancourt (Max Teichmann)
• ASIA: Middle power status for Australia: mind over rhetoric (Warren Reed)
• AFRICA: World stands by as Mugabe inflicts terror in Zimbabwe (Peter Westmore)
• FAMILY LAW: Paternity fraud punishes the blameless (Charles Francis QC)
• SCHOOLS: What must be done to lift standards? (Kevin Donnelly)
• INTERNET FILTERING: Porn industry opposes Conroy's ISP-filter plan
• OPINION: Economic policy should serve national interest (Robin Speed)
• BOOKS: LIBERAL FASCISM: The secret history of the American left, from Mussolini to the politics of meaning (Jeffry Babb (reviewer))
• BOOKS: EMBRYO: A Defense of Human Life by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
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