Arena Magazine 142

EDITORIAL: GETTING REAL ABOUT GROWTH

When growth may no longer mean jobs, we might ask: are any of our political parties facing reality?

Arena Magazine issue no. 142, 2016

Title	Author	PagePg.
EDITORIAL
GETTING REAL ABOUT GROWTH	Alison Caddick	2
LEAD GRAPHIC
	Michael Leunig	4
COMMENTARY
POLITICS AND THE BUDGET PLAN Turnbull leads us further down the path to an 80/20 society	John Hinkson	5
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME Why not just trial it?	Elise Klein	6
CLIMATE-CHANGE MITIGATION You've been misled	Patrick Moriarty	9
'SCUM OF THE EARTH' The demonisation of people smugglers is just another form of xenophobia	Ben Debney	10
LIGHTNING STRIKES AND CLIMATE CHANGE Reflecting on a summer tragedy in Tasmania	Nonie Sharp	13
ON THE EDGE OF EUROPE Greece and the European refugee crisis	Florian Schmitz	15
FEATURES
THE FAILURE OF 'RECOGNITION' Indigenous 'recognition' or a lawful settlement between peoples?	Paul Muldoon	17
POLITICAL SPRINGTIME OF THE CARTOON CONSERVATIVE The market, not values, is king for today's 'conservatives'	Bruce Buchan	21
REPLACING DIPLOMACY WITH ECONOMY? The disintegrative trajectory of Australian foreign aid	Lucas Grainger-Brown	23
BALANCE OF POWER Turmoil and realignment in the Middle East	Amin Saikal	27
NUIT DEBOUT A new, bottom-up movement on the streets of France	Nick Riemer	30
ESSAY
CYBORG WADEYE The automated Blacktip gas facility is part of a global logic bound into remote Indigenous Australia	Thomas Michel	34
ARTS AND CULTURE
THE MAKER MOVEMENT DIY culture in a time of hyper-detachment	Susie Elliott and Mark Richardson	38
REGULARS
POSTCARD: ACTUALLY EXITING SOCIALISM? Could Cuba pioneer forms of syncretism in the field of political economy?	Chris Hann	42
COOPER'S LAST: NO POETRY AFTER THE ARTS COUNCIL? Quadrant's funding cut, culture and the state	Simon Cooper	54
REVIEWS
ODDITIES AND DETRITUS The range and variety of Dušan Marek's surrealist work	Laura Fisher	47
ALLSORTS OF MYTH Mythic figures from fiction and history	Robert DiNapoli	49
LIFTING THE BAR Indigenous women and the Country Women's Association	Liz Conor	50
CURATIONISM Cultural fad or the serious work of art?	Anne Sanders	52
POETRY
ANY SPORT IN A STORM	Edith Speers	26
THE ATHEIST'S PRAYER	Stuart A. Paterson	37
HOME	Stuart A. Paterson	46
GROWING PAINS	Stuart A. Paterson	46
CARTOONS
	Matt Bissett-Johnson
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
	Chris Black

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Arena Magazine 142

EDITORIAL: GETTING REAL ABOUT GROWTH

Arena Magazine issue no. 142, 2016

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