Table of Contents - 13 Sep 2008

• COVER STORY / EDITORIAL: How America's choice will affect Australia (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd's threat to close non-performing schools
• FOREIGN INVESTMENT: Stronger rules needed on foreign investment (Patrick J. Byrne)
• AGRICULTURE: High stakes in federal quarantine inquiry (Peter Westmore)
• EDUCATION: Reflections on home-schooling (Mark Freer)
• UNITED NATIONS: Australia should not sign UN women's rights protocol (Rita Joseph)
• VICTORIA: Victoria battles over so-called 'right to kill' (Luke McCormack and Tim Cannon)
• RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: Bid to tax churches out of existence? (Bill Muehlenberg)
• ADVERTISING: Protests force removal of offensive billboards
• CHINA: How China topped the Olympic gold medal tally (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• UNITED STATES: Michelle Obama's separationist view of race (Babette Francis)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Migration debate revisited / Migrating on the SS Urea (1970) / 2008 postscript (Max Teichmann)
• Mandated medical malpractice (letter) (Charles Francis, AM, QC, RFD)
• BOOKS: ON BURCHETT, by Tibor Méray, Tibor Meray (Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer))
• BOOKS: THE ISRAEL LOBBY and US Foreign Policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt (Jeffry Babb (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books