Table of Contents - 10 May 2008

• COVER STORY: Labor abandons small business (Patrick J. Byrne)
• EDITORIAL: Overhaul Australia's quarantine system! (Peter Westmore)
• HOUSING: How to make the Australian dream come true (Jeff Babb)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Daunting challenges for Swan's first Budget
• ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Australia reels under sub-prime fall-out (Colin Teese)
• AGRICULTURE: Behind the world's food shortage (Patrick J. Byrne)
• NATIONAL SECURITY: Is it ever too early to foil a terrorist plot? (John Miller)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Dial an anti-climax / Carrying a torch for China / Economic gobbledegook / Adolescent roulette... and culture shock / Zimbabwe (Max Teichmann)
• CHINA: Beijing spying apparatus gears up for Olympics (Peter Coates)
• HIGHER EDUCATION: The high cost of free love (Bill Muehlenberg)
• REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Women in danger from sex predators, coerced abortions (Babette Francis)
• POPULATION: Russian life expectancy worse than Bangladesh's
• MEDIA: ABC program's Castro whitewash (Bill James)
• Point overlooked (letter) (Colin Teese)
• Competition policy review (letter) (Chris Hilder)
• China's jackboot diplomacy (letter) (M. Gordon)
• No voice for unborn at Rudd summit (letter) (Denise M. Cameron)
• Our next Governor-General (letter) (Frances Costa)
• It's time to help boys (letter) (Alan Barron)
• BOOKS: RISING '44: The Battle for Warsaw, by Norman Davies. (Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer))
• BOOKS: SILENT MOVIES: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture, by Peter Kobel (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books