Arena Magazine 149

EDITORIAL: ALL THAT MELTS...

What does security—the necessity of being able to assume the contours of a relatively stable life-world—mean any more?

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Arena Magazine issue no. 149, 2017

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Alison Caddick2
LEAD GRAPHIC
Matt Bissett-Johnson4
COMMENTARY
AUSTRALIA: WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Treaty-cause for optimism and opportunity
Bruce Buchan5
'Peace Pilgrims' face seven years' jail for protesting Pine Gap's global surveillance capabilities
Felicity Ruby8
NO MORE FALSE FRIENDS
Ritual protest at the G20 in Hamburg
Nicolas Hausdorf11
THE OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE
A case for hope-ocrisy at the Ecocity World Summit 2017
Dan Schulz and Matt Dwyer13
COMMENT
OUTRAGE
Maria Rae, Anna Thwaites, Neil Maizels, Simon Cooper, Jolynna Sinanan, Melinda Hinkson16
VISUAL ESSAY
WHO IS KILLING CHICHIGALPA?
Death in Nicaragua's canefields
Joshua Mcdonald26
FEATURES
Why we need to talk about the NDIS
Fiona Macdonald22
THE BOOK OF MORMON
The hit show's breathtaking racism
Russell Marks31
ANTI-SEMITISM MORAL PANICS
Coverage of the Moshe Fuerst assault reveals deep-seated media prejudice
Gavin Lewis36
ALIGHT ON THE DARK TRIAD
Is being a psychopath now regarded as being a winner?
Mark Furlong40
ARTS AND CULTURE
A PLATYPUS IN NEW YORK CITY
Sydney Theatre Company does Chekhov in NYC
Marcus Breen44
REVIEWS
PASSIONATE DEFIANCE
Terence Davies' A Quiet Passion and William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth
Valerie Krips48
PALESTINE'S HORIZON
Richard Falk's Palestine's Horizon: Toward a Just Peace
Micaela Sahhar50
COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING
Andy Blunden's The Origins of Collective Decision Making
Maher Mughrabi52
POETRY
THE LAUNCH CODE: EASY AS PI
Robert DiNapoli35
STARS
39
TRUMP SUIT
54
APPS
Kevin Roberts43
GEOLOGY 101
END NOTES ON THE EQUATION
John Gosslee47
MOMENT OF LIBERATION
CARTOONS
Matt Bissett-Johnson
Michael Leunig
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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