Table of Contents - 24 May 2008

• COVER STORY: Rudd Budget targets 'middle-class' welfare
• EDITORIAL: 'Whom the gods wish to destroy...' (Peter Westmore)
• LABOUR MARKET: Post-school education and training: a national crisis (Catherine Sheehan)
• ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Oil imports threaten to blow out foreign debt (Patrick J. Byrne)
• ENERGY: Germany's rapid development of renewable energy (Patrick J. Byrne)
• SCHOOLS: Dubious deal offered to pupils' parents / Faith schools' autonomy defended (Kevin Donnelly)
• CIVIL LIBERTIES: Political correctness suppresses free speech (Bill Muehlenberg)
• ABORTION: Why abortion should remain a crime (David Perrin)
• PUBLIC AFFAIRS: The indispensable role of government (Dr Christopher J. Ward)
• DEFENCE: Lest we forget our duty of care to servicemen (Warren Reed)
• OLYMPIC GAMES: Clean-up or purges? Beijing prepares for the Games (Jeffry Babb)
• INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: Is the United Nations beyond repair? (John Bolton)
• AS THE WORLD TURNS: Westerners acquiescing to creeping sharia / Oil fuelling world's conflicts
• OPINION: Why we should encourage creation of new Australian states (Don Ford)
• Plight of young home-buyers (letter) (Bob Day AO)
• In defence of global warming (letter) (Tim Wallace)
• Wrong way to tackle inflation (letter) (Chris Hilder)
• US presidential elections (letter) (Frank Bellet)
• Life, not euthanasia (letter) (Brian Harris)
• BOOKS: RELIGION OF PEACE? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't, by Robert Spencer (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
• BOOKS: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane (Peter Westmore (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books