Arena Magazine issue no. 133, 2014
Contents
Title | Author | PagePg. |
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EDITORIAL | ||
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 | ||
Justice and recognition in the narratives of those who have suffered | Kirsty Sangster | 14 |
FEATURES | ||
Australia's new counter-terrorism laws | Spencer Zifcak | 20 |
INLAND EMPIRE The Californian exurbs underline the political desert that is America | Guy Rundle | 24 |
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 | ||
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 |