Table of Contents - 02 May 2009

• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Labor's 'people overboard' fiasco
• EDITORIAL: Human rights consultation hijacked? (Peter Westmore)
• TRADE: Government pushes China free trade agreement (Peter Westmore)
• FIJI: Australia and NZ silent as China bankrolls military junta (Peter Westmore)
• NATIONAL AFFAIRS: From Baghdad to Beijing: Labor's dodgy dealings (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• TRADE UNIONS: WA unions host Cuban ambassador... Why? (Peter Westmore)
• ILLICIT DRUGS: Australia's $10 billion industry - organised crime (David Perrin)
• GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR: A desperate fight to the death (John Miller)
• THAILAND: Land of smiles descends into turmoil (Ian H. McDougall)
• PRE-SCHOOL: Conscripting our toddlers for political activism (Bill Muehlenberg)
• ISLAM: Where human rights are really needed (Babette Francis)
• OPINION: Legislative assault on freedom of conscience (Paul Russell)
• POLITICAL IDEAS: Crisis of credibility that has shaken the world (Professor Dermot Quinn)
• AS THE WORLD TURNS: Productive investment vs. financial speculation / Free speech curtailed for the sake of pluralism
• Human rights hearings (letter) (John Morrissey)
• Australia to import food? (letter) (Arnold Jago)
• Telstra (letter) (Peter Townsend)
• ETS to cost billions (letter) (Alan Barron)
• CINEMA: Katyn - Sombre depiction of unpunished WW2 crime (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• BOOKS: REFUGEES AND REBELS: Indonesian Exiles in Wartime Australia, by Jan Lingard (Warren Reed (reviewer))
• BOOKS: GIRLS LIKE YOU: Four Young Girls, Six Brothers and a Cultural Timebomb, by Paul Sheehan (John Morrissey (reviewer))
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