Table of Contents - 07 Feb 2009

• EDITORIAL: Where will President Obama take America? (Peter Westmore)
• GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: Can Australia avoid an economic depression? (Patrick J. Byrne)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Australia should brace itself for worse to come
• RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: Blatant political bias in human rights body (Damian Wyld)
• JUDICIARY: High Court nominee's gay rights, abortion activism (Jerome Appleby)
• GLOBAL TERRORISM: The great lie of 'home-grown' terrorism (John Miller)
• QUARANTINE: Shake-up for Australia's quarantine system (Peter Westmore)
• INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Being smart about using soft power (Jeffry Babb)
• MEDIA: What to make of the Obama cult (Bill Muehlenberg)
• OPINION: Is there any point to suffering? (Paul Russell)
• CIVILISATION: Created equal: how Christianity shaped the West (Dinesh D'Souza)
• AS THE WORLD TURNS: How modern law makes us powerless / Dutch anti-Islam MP to face trial / UK Christian care home accused of 'institutionalised homophobia'
• OPINION: Legislative change could help first home-buyers (Brian Peachey)
• Should democracy always have the last word? (letter) (Matthew Buckley)
• Deserted by the Liberals? (letter) (Kevin O'Neill)
• A future for News Weekly (letter) (Nicholas Partridge)
• FORUM: Free markets and libertarianism (Hal G.P. Colebatch and John Ballantyne)
• CINEMA: Slumdog Millionaire - Indian orphan tale a box-office hit (Anthony Barich (reviewer))
• BOOKS: ENOUGH: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, by John C. Bogle (Peter Westmore (reviewer))
• BOOKS: THE WHITE WAR: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919, by Mark Thompson, (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books