Arena Magazine 148

EDITORIAL: AFTERMATH

In the aftermath of the Intervention there has been a profound shift in the terms of national attention to Indigenous affairs.

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Arena Magazine issue no. 148, 2017

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Melinda Hinkson2
LEAD GRAPHIC
Ali Lamei4
THE INTERVENTION: COMMENTARIES
TEN YEARS OF INTERVENTION
The Intervention was never just a failure
Rachel Siewert5
WHEN THE DOGS WENT IN
'Welfare reform' in Ceduna
Eve Vincent7
WHY DIDN'T WE LISTEN?
The temporal logic of settler colonialism
Dan Tout9
THE INTERVENTION: FEATURES
COLONIAL TURBULENCE IN THE NORTH
The hope to persuade and co-opt-the failure of the Intervention
Nicolas Rothwell11
The stain of the Intervention on Indigenous-non-Indigenous relations
Joe Morrison18
The Intervention's role in state-based child abuse
Thalia Anthony21
THE DESTRUCTION OF HOMELANDER LIFE-WAYS
Genocide and Intervention in contemporary Australia
Jon Altman31
PATRICK WOLFE AND SETTLER-COLONIAL INTERVENTION
Theory and practice to help us think about the Intervention
Elizabeth Strakosch and Alissa Macoun35
VISUAL ESSAY
LAJAMANU COUNTRY
Judith Crispin26
REVIEW ESSAY
GREEN AND BLACK? BLACK OR GREEN?
Reviewing Unstable Relations
Peter Christoff38
FEATURES
BOMBS AWAY
The hidden legacies of Britain's hydrogen-bomb tests
Nic Maclellan41
TRUMP AND THE FASCIST PROSPECT
The social-cultural conditions of the collapse of liberal democracy
John Hinkson44
THE MACRON VICTORY
The shifting front lines of European politics
Nicolas Hausdorf48
REVIEWS
PATRICK POUND: THE GREAT EXHIBITION
A meta-Art?
Neil Maizels50
POLICY REFORM AS VIOLENCE
Livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after CDEP
Thomas Michel52
WHAT IS A REFUGEE?
Hardening hearts and borders won't solve the crisis
Asher Hirsch53
POETRY
NO MAGGOTS TODAY
Barry Hill37
BACK TO WORK
Paul Mitchell47
CARTOONS
Matt Bissett-Johnson
Simon Kneebone
Le Lievre
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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