Table of Contents - 26 Dec 2009

• EDITORIAL: A reflection on Christmas (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: The new Opposition team (national correspondent)
• ENVIRONMENT: Copenhagen summit ignores 'Climategate' scandal (Peter Westmore)
• FINANCIAL CRISIS: Can the world expect a sustainable recovery? (Colin Teese)
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The challenge of China (Peter Westmore)
• HUMAN RIGHTS: Commonwealth's double standards over Sri Lanka, Fiji (Dr John Whitehall)
• CULTURE: The sexualisation of girlhood (Melinda Tankard Reist)
• IDEOLOGIES: Radical environmentalism: the new socialism (Bill Muehlenberg)
• CIVILISATION: What now after the cultural revolution? (Patrick J. Byrne)
• MEDIA: Why America's newspapers are dying (Jeffry Babb)
• IDEAS: Why haven't more people heard of G.K. Chesterton? (Dale Ahlquist)
• OPINION: Paid maternity leave and the war against women (Colin H. Jory)
• A new name for News Weekly? (letter) (Don Ford)
• Why the democracies should support Taiwan (letter) (Dong Li)
• BOOK REVIEW: FREEDOM TO BELIEVE: Challenging Islam's Apostasy Law, by Patrick Sookhdeo (Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer))
• BOOK REVIEW: BLOODY VICTORY: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the making of the Twentieth Century, by William Philpott (Michael E. Daniel (reviewer))
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