Table of Contents - 30 Aug 2008

• CLIMATE CHANGE: It's official: the world is cooling, not warming (Peter Westmore)
• EDITORIAL: Olympic Games backfire on Beijing (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Tougher times ahead as commodity boom falters
• ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Should we rescue imprudent banks? (Colin Teese)
• WESTERN AUSTRALIA: How Labor's Carpenter may cling to power (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• WATER: Radical plan to overcome water shortage
• NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Remembering Menzies' "forgotten people" (Jeffry Babb)
• INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Resurgent Russia's conflict with Georgia (Peter Coates)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Recipe for social conflict / Putin's gamble / Once more unto the swill buckets, dear friends (Max Teichmann)
• SPECIAL FEATURE: B.A. Santamaria, strategist and prophet (Cardinal George Pell AC)
• MARRIAGE: On breaking the marriage covenant (Bill Muehlenberg)
• HISTORY: Hitler proposed a "final solution" for Christianity (Bill James)
• OBITUARY: Bob O'Connell (August 29, 1922 - July 30, 2008), a generous man of integrity (Fr Peter Joseph)
• Economic production needed, not speculation (letter) (Dr Garrick Small)
• BOOKS: WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR GIRLS? Too much too soon: how our kids are overstimulated, oversold and oversexed (Catherine Sheehan (reviewer))
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