Arena Magazine 145

EDITORIAL: TRUMP'S TRAJECTORY?

The stakes are high and feelings volatile. This is where we are now.

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Arena Magazine issue no. 145, 2016

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
John Hinkson2
LEAD GRAPHIC
David Blumenstein5
COMMENTARY
Attacks on the green movement are intensifying
John Hepburn6
The federal government attacks its watchers
Spencer Zifcak8
A VICTORIAN TREATY?
Safeguarding Aboriginal rights in perpetuity
Muriel Bamblett11
COMIC
FOLLOWING A DEATH IN CUSTODY...
Pages from a graphic novel
Jan Bauer13
COMMENT
THE TRUMP REALITY
Bruce Kapferer, Grazyna Zajdow, Jon Altman, Richard Tanter, Neil Maizels, Paul James, Gavin Lewis, Robert Geroux, Andrew Lattas, Alison Caddick18
FEATURES
OUR PUNITIVE NATION
Incarceration and where it is taking us as a society
Richard Evans31
SELF-IMMOLATION
Tibetans' refusal to live under circumstances prescribed from above
Tim Robertson35
NURSING AND ITS DISCONTENTS
The rationalisation of caring and intensification of control
Meave Noonan39
ESSAY
DEATH AND THE CHILD
Testimony from war criminals
Kirsty Sangster42
ARTS AND CULTURE
KEN LOACH
That subversive gentleman
Valerie Krips45
REGULARS
COMMON TOUCH: 'PSYCHOLOGICAL'
The reign of the psychological
Mark Furlong25
VISUAL ESSAY
LA RICCHIZZA DI LA TERRA
Making art in Palermo's Vucciria market
Chips Mackinolty26
REVIEWS
SKIN DEEP
Interrogating images of Aboriginal women in print
Catherine Kevin and Monique Mulholland50
TIME TRAVELLERS
Tom Griffiths' new book on historians and their craft
Roger Markwick51
PRACTISING HOME
The meanings of property and an exploration of home
Libby Porter54
POETRY
HELL'S CAGE
Paul Collis41
THE TROJAN WAR WILL NOT TAKE PLACE
Kevin Hart49
LAO-TZU AND THE LOUSE
CARTOONS
Matt Bissett-Johnson
Michael Leunig
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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