Arena Magazine 133

EDITORIAL: ETHICS AND POLITICS AT CHRISTMAS TIME

We can see again an implicit framework that the major parties share, albeit from different sides … for at least many of the younger generations it is surely a danse macabre, of figures of an old world that retain only slight purchase on the key issues and forms of the present.

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Arena Magazine issue no. 133, 2014

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Alison Caddick2
LEAD GRAPHIC
BEAUTIFUL TYRES, BELIEVE ME!
Neil Maizels4
AGAINST THE CURRENT
WHITLAM AND DEMOCRACY
The impertinence of democratic self-determination
Chris Pollard5
TRIUMPH OF THE DELUDED?
Pivoting north? Who actually lives there?
Chips Mackinolty7
AID IN BURMA
Burmese reform has contrary effects for Thai border refugees
Karen McGrath10
SETTLER COLONIALISM CLOSURES
The logic behind WA Indigenous community closures
Dan Tout12
ESSAY
Justice and recognition in the narratives of those who have suffered
Kirsty Sangster14
FEATURES
Australia's new counter-terrorism laws
Spencer Zifcak20
INLAND EMPIRE
The Californian exurbs underline the political desert that is America
Guy Rundle24
Is junk food advertising conditioning a generation of fat children?
Paul Biegler28
REMEMBERING CHILDHOOD
Childhood as a reflection of ourselves
Valerie Krips32
NEW CONFIGURATIONS IN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
The Victorian case offers a window on the rollout of the NDIS
Mark Furlong35
THE TURN TO RELIGION
Religion in the post-poststructuralist break-up of the modern political certainties
Matthew Sharpe38
ARTS AND CULTURE
SINGING AUSTRALIA INTO BEING: CHARLES HARPUR
Australia's first poet, misunderstood and almost forgotten
Nonie Sharp41
REGULARS - POSTCARD
THE VILLAGES OF HEBEI
Village simplicity, socialist and ancient all at once
Roland Boer46
REVIEWS
Dispatches from the frontline of aid relief
Harold Stone49
ORIGINAL SIN
James Boyce's 'Born Bad'
Stephen Ames50
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Paul Kingsnorth's 'The Wake'
Robert DiNapoli52
SHORT STORY
SAVAGE WOMEN
Winner of Arena Magazine's award for Best Short Story with a Political Edge, part of Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Awards
Melanie Myers54
POETRY
SUMMER IN MELBOURNE
Kevin Hart44
THE CANON
Kevin Hart45
EDEN
Chris Wallace-Crabbe48
AIRBORNE
Chris Wallace-Crabbe48
CARTOONS
Matt Bissett-Johnson

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