Arena Magazine 133

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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.

Arena Magazine issue no. 133, 2014

Title	Author	PagePg.
EDITORIAL
ETHICS AND POLITICS AT CHRISTMAS TIME	Alison Caddick	2
LEAD GRAPHIC
BEAUTIFUL TYRES, BELIEVE ME!	Neil Maizels	4
AGAINST THE CURRENT
WHITLAM AND DEMOCRACY The impertinence of democratic self-determination	Chris Pollard	5
TRIUMPH OF THE DELUDED? Pivoting north? Who actually lives there?	Chips Mackinolty	7
AID IN BURMA Burmese reform has contrary effects for Thai border refugees	Karen McGrath	10
SETTLER COLONIALISM CLOSURES The logic behind WA Indigenous community closures	Dan Tout	12
ESSAY
STORY-TELLING Justice and recognition in the narratives of those who have suffered	Kirsty Sangster	14
FEATURES
PROPORTIONALITY LOST Australia's new counter-terrorism laws	Spencer Zifcak	20
INLAND EMPIRE The Californian exurbs underline the political desert that is America	Guy Rundle	24
PAVLOV'S KIDS Is junk food advertising conditioning a generation of fat children?	Paul Biegler	28
REMEMBERING CHILDHOOD Childhood as a reflection of ourselves	Valerie Krips	32
NEW CONFIGURATIONS IN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH The Victorian case offers a window on the rollout of the NDIS	Mark Furlong	35
THE TURN TO RELIGION Religion in the post-poststructuralist break-up of the modern political certainties	Matthew Sharpe	38
ARTS AND CULTURE
SINGING AUSTRALIA INTO BEING: CHARLES HARPUR Australia's first poet, misunderstood and almost forgotten	Nonie Sharp	41
REGULARS - POSTCARD
THE VILLAGES OF HEBEI Village simplicity, socialist and ancient all at once	Roland Boer	46
REVIEWS
MAKING IT LESS WORSE Dispatches from the frontline of aid relief	Harold Stone	49
ORIGINAL SIN James Boyce's 'Born Bad'	Stephen Ames	50
LOST IN TRANSLATION Paul Kingsnorth's 'The Wake'	Robert DiNapoli	52
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 Myers	54
POETRY
SUMMER IN MELBOURNE	Kevin Hart	44
THE CANON	Kevin Hart	45
EDEN	Chris Wallace-Crabbe	48
AIRBORNE	Chris Wallace-Crabbe	48
CARTOONS
	Matt Bissett-Johnson

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Arena Magazine 133

EDITORIAL: ETHICS AND POLITICS AT CHRISTMAS TIME

Arena Magazine issue no. 133, 2014

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