Arena Magazine no. 154

Editorial: New World or Worlds Unravelling?

Korea and Jerusalem: global flashpoints in the new world order

Read more...

Arena Magazine issue no. 154, 2018

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
Editorial
John Hinkson2
Lead Graphic
Amelyn Ng4
Commentary
The CFMEU reprieve and the Coalition’s culture war
Frances Flanagan5
INSIDE MYANMAR
Will an engaged Buddhism and growing civil society offer a way to peace for Myanmar’s ethnic minorities?
Jill Jameson7
CAUGHT OUT
What sits behind cricket’s ball-tampering scandal
Lindsay Fitzclarence10
HELLO, NEIGHBOUR
Do New Caledonians want independence?
Jemimah Widdicombe12
COMPETITIVE NEUTRALITY
Neoliberal assumptions and the transformation of the ABC
Bill Garner15
Visual Essay
LIFE AND DEATH IN VARANASI
Joshua Mcdonald26
Features
Transgressing and reforming the law: strengthening workers’ rights through political action
Liyan Gao17
Civilisation, white farmers and being a South African Australian today
Jeremy Baskin21
SURVEIL AND COMMODIFY: TWENTY YEARS OF GOOGLE
The second of three articles in the twentieth-anniversary year of Google: advertising for monopoly power
Timothy Erik Ström31
ANTI-SEMITISM: A PROPER RECKONING
Assessing accusations of anti-Semitism against Corbyn and the Left
Michael de Young36
Essay
REMEMBERING AT WOOLGANGI
As a lagoon re-emerges and country heals, an Aboriginal past is revealed
Skye Krichauff40
Arts and Culture
TV IN ME
Dan Schulz46
Reviews
BREXIT BRITAIN
David Hare and J. S. Clarkson’s Collateral
Valerie Krips50
A VANISHED MEDIUM
Dissent: The Student Press in 1960s Australia, by Sally Percival Wood
Anthony O’Donnell51
LESS REVOLUTION THAN RESTORATION
Revolution, by Emmanuel Macron
The Piping Shrike52
Poetry
THE PAPER POOL
Robert DiNapoli9
CASUS BELLI
THE LAUNCH CODE: EASY AS PI
A GAME OF CHESS
Cally Conan-Davies44
ONLY THE SURFACE BREAKS
CHILD AT THE BAY OF FIRES
45
THINGS I’VE DONE
Cartoons
Matt Bissett-Johnson
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

Support Arena

Independent publications and critical thought are more important than ever. Arena has never relied on or received government funding. It has sustained its activities largely through the voluntary work and funding provided by editors and supporters. If Arena is to continue and to expand its readership, we need your support to do it.