Arena Magazine issue no. 135, 2015
Contents
| Title | Author | PagePg. |
|---|---|---|
| EDITORIAL | ||
| John Hinkson | 2 | |
| LEAD GRAPHIC | ||
| Neil Maizels | 4 | |
| AGAINST THE CURRENT | ||
The contribution made by traditional Indigenous economies | Brian F. Codding, Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird | 5 |
NEW PARADIGM FOR GREEK SOCIETY The flowering of social solidarity amid austerity | Sotiris Roussos | 7 |
| WAR REFLECTIONS | ||
MYTH AND MEMORY Ways of remembering for a forgetful present | Valerie Krips | 9 |
WATCHING 'CITIZENFOUR' The limits of documentary thinking and the prelude to war | Neil Maizels | 10 |
Romance and reality in following the United States into war | Paul Barratt | 12 |
WE GO TO WAR WHEN OUR COUSINS DO The shift away from regional engagement to anglophone partnership | Tony Kevin | 14 |
NO VICTORY AMID RUBBLE The destruction of Kobane and the long-term consequences of war | Vanessa Powell | 17 |
BRITTAIN'S 'TESTAMENT OF YOUTH' A woman's anti-war contribution | Caroline Hurley | 18 |
| FEATURES | ||
The Abbott government and the erosion of the rule of law | Desmond Manderson | 21 |
THE $40-BILLION SUBMARINES Pathway to strategic disaster | Richard Tanter | 24 |
RACISM AND THE REPORTING OF ANTI-SEMITISM Who qualifies as a 'victim'? | Gavin Lewis | 27 |
| ESSAY | ||
HORRIFIED, NO LONGER SHOCKED Heidegger's 'Black Books' | Matthew Sharpe | 32 |
| MEMOIR | ||
THE WATCH AND THE RING | Grazyna Zajdow | 37 |
| ARTS AND CULTURE | ||
DEATH OF THE WORD? Is narrative and our capacity to understand it core to human being? | Tom McWilliam | 41 |
| REGULARS | ||
THE COMMON TOUCH: GET FOCUSED What does it prove? | Mark Furlong | 20 |
COOPER'S LAST: HOW TO FILTER THE TRUTH Google, universities and deregulation | Simon Cooper | 58 |
| REVIEWS | ||
REMEMBERING THE FUTURE Warlpiri life through the prism of drawing | John Kean | 45 |
A LYRICAL REALIST B. N. Oakman's 'Second Thoughts' | Ian Irvine (Hobson) | 47 |
NO FAIR GO Why seeking asylum is legal and Australia's policies are not | Amy Nethery | 48 |
WHAT WOMEN NEED? Of wives and women in places of power | Meave Noonan | 49 |
| STORY | ||
THE ELEPHANT THIEF The runner-up in Arena Magazine's inaugural award for Best Short Story with a Political Edge, part of the 2014 Scarlet Stiletto Awards | Angela Savage | 52 |
| POETRY | ||
THE SHRINE OF REMEMBRANCE | Robert DiNapoli | 26 |
LEDA, INC. | 36 | |
ÉMIGRÉ | 44 | |
LUGUBRIOUS | Holly Painter | 57 |
| CARTOONS | ||
| Matt Bissett-Johnson | ||
| PHOTOGRAPHY | ||
| Ponch Hawkes | ||