Many Faces of Colonising Power

This issue has a focus on the Voice, with pieces by Michael Mansell, Celeste Liddle, Marilyn Lake, Brian Burkett and Alison Caddick. In an extended essay Dan Tout takes on ‘the idea of Australia’, with evident consequences for thinking through just what the Voice offers, and Andreas Pohl poses the challenging question of how genocide in Australia might be memorialised. Two pieces on the Russia-Ukraine war ask controversial questions about how it might be viewed in a less fevered way, and how it might be brought to an end. And then there are essays on capitalism and slavery, Darwin development, the Northern Rivers floods, Robobdebt, Donald Horne, sculpture and touch, and wonderful poetry.

Editorial: Many Faces of Colonialism

How will the Voice, if it comes into being, handle the further deracination of Culture in the hands of sympathetic technocrats, used as a tool itself of enlightened governance of Indigenous people and their aspirations?

Arena Quarterly issue no. 15, 2023

Title	Author	PagePg.
Editorial
Many Faces of Colonialism	Alison Caddick	2
Voice
We Have a Voice: It's Not Listened To Uluru has been repurposed to vote up a powerless advisory body	Michael Mansell	4
The Unfinished Business of 1967 Treaty and Voice were spoken of from the moment the 1967 referendum was won	Marilyn Lake	8
Still Fighting the Frontier Wars Claims to care about ‘our First Australians’ reveal a virulent white supremacy	Brian Burkett	11
Notes of an Arrernte 'Undecided' A Yes vote won’t change whose constitution it is, a No vote won’t take the struggle back decades	Celeste Liddle	15
World
The Government Is Criminal! The Robodebt report is to be commended, but deeper social processes are in play	John Hinkson	19
Letter from London It's now pro-Putin to refer to any and all history in looking over the Russia-Ukraine disaster	Gerry Simpson	24
Reflections on the Novorossiya War A conservative and realist appraisal of Russia’s invasion and Ukraine’s chances	Gray Connolly	28
Indian Rope Trick? The US thinks India is no more than an anti- China bulwark while Modi remakes Asia	Binoy Kampmark	33
Country
Settler Nationalism and Progressive Discourse Even searching accounts of Australia’s founding can’t resist an assimilationist logic	Dan Tout	36
A Culture of Remembrance? Can Australia learn from Germany’s notion of Erinnerungskultur to confront our genocidal past?	Andreas Pohl	46
Gas Town, Darwin Greenwashing fossil fuel expansion in northern Australia	Kristy Howey	52
Environment
On the Climate Frontline Talking to survivors of the Northern Rivers catastrophe	David Ritter	60
Theory
The Password Is ‘Sugar’ Atlantic chattel-slaveries and the revolution inside capital	Humphrey McQueen	69
Arts and Culture
Ahmed Faraz, Poet of Love and Hope Poetry of witness and inspiration for Pakistan’s people and beyond	Ali Shehzad Zaidi	76
Reviews
The Elusiveness of Young Donald Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country, by Ryan Cropp	Guy Rundle	84
Rubbing/Loving Do Ho Suh at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia	Christian Caiconte	87
Fire in the Head? Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer	Richard King	93
The Universities and Israel Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine, by Nick Riemer	Mark Furlong	95
Poetry
The Aukward Situation	Mitchell Welsh	18
Words Like Small Birds	Michael Edwards	68
Mushrooms / On Earth / A Song for My Granddaughter / Fish / Lullaby	Cally Conan-Davies	80

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Many Faces of Colonising Power

Editorial: Many Faces of Colonialism

Arena Quarterly issue no. 15, 2023

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