COVER

Triumphs, Troubles and Tea (A to Z: The Year in Medicine)

Every year has its breakthroughs and breakdowns in the science, business and politics of health care. But for all its many controversies, 2005 was a banner year

SOCIETY

Jobs For Our Mob

A relentless farmerand a team of enterprising Aboriginescould be sowing the seeds of an indigenous middle class

ENVIROMENT

Dingo, Going, Gone? (Environment)

Cross-breeding, hunting and neglect are wiping out Australia's iconic dingo

BRIEFING

Mystery on Highway 10 (Notebook)

Capturing three suspicious men carrying $600,000 at a checkpoint in the early days of the Iraq war might have seemed relatively simple to the Australian Special Air Service soldiers

A Cloning Cover-up (Notebook)

South Korea's stem-cell pioneer resigns over ethical questions