Arena Magazine 130

EDITORIAL: IRAQ AND OUR DEMOCRACY

If the non-response to the marches against the Iraq war in 2003 confirmed a disabling political cynicism in many people, today we witness the political fruits of two decades of aggression in the Middle East and its fallout.

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Arena Magazine issue no. 130, 2014

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Alison Caddick2
LEAD GRAPHIC
George Burchett4
AGAINST THE CURRENT
END OF THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY
The budget destroys what's left of the universities
Colin Long5
The moral crisis at the heart of the neoliberal university
John Holmwood7
VALUE FOR MONEY
The Coalition's new paradigm in Australian foreign aid
Linda Wollersheim9
BENTLEY BLOCKADE
A lesson in participatory democracy
Jonathan Cassell12
STORY
THE MEDICINE IS IN THE MEMOIR
On depression, therapy and writing
Barry Dickins14
FEATURES
Visions of society and democracy in the Abbott/Hockey budget
Boris Frankel16
BEHIND THE BUDGET
The real economic and cultural emergency that neoliberalism denies
John Hinkson21
DECONSTRUCTING THAT SPEECH
Julia Gillard and the rise of misogyny in Australian politics
Denise Varney25
I THINK I'LL STAY HOME
On air travel, climate change and voluntary grounding
Alice Robinson29
DANCING WITH REASON'S MONSTERS
In the Andes, whose utopias will prevail?
Fregmonto Stokes33
ESSAY
GERMAN WOMEN DO NOT SMOKE
Hannah Arendt the biopic, and Hannah Arendts legacy
Justin Clemens37
REVIEW ESSAY
SURROGACY IS TO PROSTITUTION
When the desire for children makes the exploitation of women OK
Grazyna Zajdow46
REGULARS - POSTCARD
GHOSTS OF TOKYO CITY
Tokyo's homeless men
Jacob Lynagh44
REGULARS - COOPER'S LAST
KEEPING THE WORLD AT BAY
Trigger warnings and art as therapy
Simon Cooper54
REVIEWS
LAW AND INDIGENEITY
How moral-political categories are affecting the Law
Shelley Bielefeld49
A FAR, FAR BETTER TRIP
Michael Winterbottom's "A Trip to Italy"
Neil Maizels51
POETRY
EXISTENCE, TO BE
Neil Hooley13
BANISHING THE POETS FROM THE POLIS, CAVAFY
John Falzon43
PORTER STORIES 01, PORTER STORIES 02, PORTER STORIES 03
John Falzon48

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