Table of Contents - 04 Apr 2009

• EDITORIAL: A way out of the economic tsunami? (Peter Westmore)
• FREEDOM OF SPEECH: The new persecution that calls itself 'tolerance' (Cardinal George Pell AC)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Senator Steve Fielding's political challenge
• COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT: Rudd Government's radical agenda by stealth (Jerome Appleby)
• NATIONAL AFFAIRS: The Liberal Party faces moment of truth (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• QUEENSLAND STATE ELECTION I: Labor's Anna Bligh returns to power (Ken Francis)
• QUEENSLAND STATE ELECTION II: Leading abortion campaigner defeated
• ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Can free trade theory survive the global slump? (Colin Teese)
• ENVIRONMENT: Global cooling is here: Don Easterbrook (Peter Westmore)
• BIOETHICS: Plant liberation: Europe's next cause célèbre? (Bill Muehlenberg)
• UNITED NATIONS: Voices for the unborn heard at UN session (Babette Francis)
• OPINION: Granting scientists power to take innocent life (Barnaby Joyce)
• F.D. Roosevelt and Obama's strategies (letter) (Peter J. Talbot)
• Agriculture the best-performing sector (letter) (Hon. Robert Brokenshire MLC)
• Increasing populations (letter) (John Noble)
• CINEMA: Easy Virtue - Dark side of 'deliciously funny comedy' (Len Phillips (reviewer))
• BOOKS: SMACK EXPRESS: How Organised Crime Got Hooked on Drugs, by Clive Small and Tom Gilling (Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer))
• BOOKS: JOURNEY TO ETERNITY: Victim of Apartheid: a novel, by Eric Carman (Peter Westmore (reviewer))
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