Table of Contents - 16 May 2009

• COVER STORY: Impending collapse of Australian agriculture (Patrick J. Byrne)
• EDITORIAL: Implications of the budget black hole (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd backs down on climate change
• GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: IMF's global outlook: expect the worst (Peter Westmore)
• MANAGED INVESTMENT SCHEMES: Behind the collapse of Timbercorp (Peter Westmore)
• INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Re-inventing the wheel of international trade (Colin Teese)
• CHINA: China sees US as dying Roman empire (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Taiwan's WHO entry breakthrough (Ian H. McDougall)
• UNITED NATIONS: UN anti-racism conference blames Israel (Babette Francis)
• ARTIFICIAL REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY: Does family matter? Ask the kids… (Tim Cannon)
• POPULATION: One-child policy for Australia, says green group (Bill Muehlenberg)
• ABORTION LAWS: Further threats from pro-abortion fanatics (David Perrin)
• RUSSIA: Russia faces catastrophic population decline (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• AS THE WORLD TURNS: Ageing population adds to financial crisis / Turn back the clock / Obama axes school voucher program
• CINEMA: Shielding one's eyes from the truth - 'Good' (Len Phillips (reviewer))
• BOOKS: HEAVEN AND EARTH - Global Warming: the Missing Science, by Ian Plimer (Michael Gilchrist (reviewer))
• BOOKS: WORLD WAR II: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: Stalin, the Nazis and the West, by Laurence Rees (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
• BOOKS: WAR AND MEDICINE, by Thuyavan with John Whitehall (Peter Westmore (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books