Arena Magazine 144

EDITORIAL: NEW REALITIES, NEW POLITICS

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Arena Magazine issue no. 144, 2016

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Alison Caddick2
LEAD GRAPHIC
James Alexander Martin4
COMMENTARY
DON DALE
The week of silence
Anon.5
COMMUNITY ENERGY
Australian governments could unleash untapped renewables potential
Tom Nockolds and Jayitri Smiles7
THE GREAT DIVIDE
The new fat cats in Australia's universities
Richard Hil and Kristen Lyons9
THE GOOD GERMAN
Has Merkel given up on her refugee policy?
Richard Ogier11
The transformation of Pine Gap
Richard Tanter12
FEATURES
How to understand our attitude to refugees and detention regimes
Russell Marks17
With Trump setting the agenda, Clinton retools 'diversity'
Guy Rundle22
MARKETISING EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
Why Australia's employment system fails the poor
Andrew Saunders31
ELDER CARE AND COMMUNITY AMNESIA
Nursing dementia patients then and now
Bella Anderson35
IS THAT WHAT IT IS!
Capitalism-the family wars
Neil Maizels38
ESSAY
HUMAN SMOKE, BARED THROATS
Chilcot-reproach with sang-froid
Barry Hill41
PHOTO ESSAY
STORIES FROM THE WEST BANK
Life under occupation
Ponch Hawkes26
REGULARS
POSTCARD: THE CIRCUS MASTER
Calculated machismo in Putin's Russia
Mark Furlong15
COOPER'S LAST: FACEBOOK AND LIONEL SHRIVER
Censorship and freedom in digital capitalism
Simon Cooper54
REVIEWS
RADICAL RADIO
Forty years of 3CR
David Melzer47
RED PROFESSOR
The Cold War life of Fred Rose
Melinda Hinkson48
JAZZ, GENDER AND ADDICTION
Born to Be Blue and Miles Ahead
Grazyna Zajdow50
PUNK BANANAS
Metal punk in Malaysia, Borneo and Indonesia
Melody Kemp52
POETRY
A HISTORY
Mark Roberts21
MAY DAY
Mark Roberts21
LIST OF WASTE
John Gosslee46
THE TERMINAL
John Gosslee46
CHAPTER OF LOSS
John Gosslee46
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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