Table of Contents - 27 Jun 2009

• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Peter Costello calls it a day
• EDITORIAL: New South Wales puts Australian firms first (Peter Westmore)
• VICTORIA: The threats to Victoria's electricity and water (Patrick J. Byrne)
• GENERAL MOTORS: Restructured GM won't thrive without new mindset (Jeffry Babb)
• UNITED STATES I: Obama's celebrity-style media spectacle (Daniel Greenfield)
• UNITED STATES II: Cairo speech impressed Western media, not Islamic world (Peter Westmore)
• IRAN: US conciliatory approach to Tehran backfires (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• ASIA/PACIFIC REGION: East Timor consolidates stable democratic government (Peter Westmore)
• UNITED STATES: Husband and wife spied for communist Cuba (Joseph Poprzeczny)
• SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY: How science can diminish humanity (Bill Muehlenberg)
• EUTHANASIA: The perils of euthanasia "with safeguards" (Paul Russell)
• MEN AND IDEAS: Bob Santamaria's role in Australia's culture wars (Professor Gabriël A. Moens)
• OPINION: The Japanese threat facing Australia in 1942 (James Bowen)
• Failure of stimulus packages (letter) (Peter D. Howard)
• Russia's population crisis (letter) (John Maguire)
• IPCC's political agenda (letter) (Alan Barron)
• MEDIA: ABC Chaser's war on common decency (Angus Chapple)
• CINEMA: Hollywood morality for an audience of fools - State of Play (Len Phillips)
• BOOKS: SHAKESPEARE'S SHATTERED YOUTH: Laming or Elixir? by Lucy Sullivan (J.A. Kirkpatrick (reviewer))
• BOOKS: CROSSING HITLER: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand, by Benjamin C. Hett (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books