Archive: Arena Quarterly #15

The Universities and Israel

Arena Quarterly no.15

Mark Furlong

Sep 2023

In counterpoint to so much circulating about a victimised Israel, Riemer’s book is a work of ethical and affective commitment in which the latter, perforce, is animated by the former.

Ahmed Faraz, Poet of Love and Hope

Arena Quarterly no.15

Ali Shehzad Zaidi

Sep 2023

In Pakistan, where the poor have little recourse to justice, poetry accompanies and comforts those living a harsh existence.

The Government is Criminal!: The Robodebt report is to be commended, but there are deeper social processes in play

John Hinkson

7 Nov 2023

The accusation that a government is criminal is usually a throw-away line, a sign of disaffection over some action that outsiders or opponents regard as immoral. It is not actually a legal claim. In its stronger forms, it may be a wish that the act in question could be addressed legally, but usually it is a statement based in political division.

Indian Rope Trick?: The US thinks India is no more than an anti-China bulwark while Modi remakes Asia

Binoy Kampmark

7 Nov 2023

In all of the foamy self-congratulatory rituals, it was hard to forget that Modi was banned from travelling to the United States in 2005...

Gas Town, Darwin: Greenwashing fossil fuel expansion in northern Australia

Arena Quarterly no.15

Kirsty Howey

Sep 2023

That the Australian taxpayer is funding this dystopian vision during an escalating climate crisis is a national scandal.

The Password is ‘Sugar’

Arena Quarterly no.15

Humphrey McQueen

Sep 2023

A prolegomenon to the indirect contributions of Atlantic chattel-slaveries to the revolution inside capital

On the Climate Frontline: Talking to survivors of the Northern Rivers catastrophe

Arena Quarterly no.15

David Ritter

Sep 2023

Accounts are visceral and distressing: of last moment escapes through windows and scrambled rescues from rooftops; of witnessing raw destruction and surreal chaos; of the terror of children, the aged and vulnerable; of the horror and the pity of drowning animals.

A Culture of Remembrance?

Arena Quarterly no.15

Andreas Pohl

Sep 2023

Erinnerungskultur, or culture of remembrance, conveys the idea that the memory of Germany’s past needs to be permanently woven into both its political and its everyday culture.

Still Fighting the Frontier Wars

Arena Quarterly no.15

Brian Burkett

Sep 2023

Taking a thoroughly Orwellian approach, Katter’s Australian Party’s ‘Newspeak’ produces a twisted white supremacist discourse that easily forgets the killing times.

Settler Nationalism and Progressive Discourse

Arena Quarterly no.15

Dan Tout

Sep 2023

Even searching accounts of Australia’s founding can’t resist the assimilationist logic they expose.

The Unfinished Business of 1967

Arena Quarterly no.15

Marilyn Lake

Sep 2023

Treaty and Voice were being spoken of from the moment the referendum was won.

The Aukward Situation

Arena Quarterly no.15

Mitchell Welch

Sep 2023

Excuse the strain, we’ve been roundly Amerified. Our tastes, waistlines, the secular statehood of our core antagonisms; all have given up the canestalk for lashings of fructified corn.