Arena Magazine issue no. 157, 2018
Contents
| Title | Author | PagePg. |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial | ||
| Alison Caddick | 2 | |
| Lead Graphic | ||
| Matt Bissett-Johnson | 4 | |
| Commentary | ||
TAKING STOCK OF THE 'WAR ON TERROR' Containing a threat we had a hand in making | Gregory Barton | 5 |
MUSLIM-SEXUAL-ABUSE MORAL PANIC The demonisation of black male sexuality | Gavin Lewis | 7 |
POWERLESS AND VOICELESS What has the Don Dale Royal Commission achieved? | John B. Lawrence | 8 |
AN UNSAVOURY RECORD Timor-Leste's construction boom | James Scambary | 11 |
MYSTERY MEAT Will the biotech industry write the rules on new GM techniques? | Louise Sales | 12 |
| Features | ||
GROUNDS FOR HOPE Rights or compassion? Different trajectories for refugee advocacy | Klaus Neumann | 15 |
IDEAS FROM ACROSS THE DITCH Learning from NZ social policy | Louise Humpage | 20 |
UNCHAINED RADICAL PROMETHEANS An extract from 'Fictions of Sustainability' | Boris Frankel | 23 |
| Visual Essay | ||
ANOTHER MYANMAR The heroin epidemic in Kachin state | Joshua Mcdonald | 26 |
| SPECIAL SECTION: TRANS CHILDREN | ||
Transgender and children’s fiction | Valerie Krips | 31 |
Understanding our limits as we allow a space for ‘transition’ | Jo Taylor-Violet | 34 |
| Essay | ||
BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS Donald Trump, Harold Bloom and the American Sublime | Robert DiNapoli | 37 |
| Reflection | ||
A CHILD OF THE GATWICK HOTEL It was down at heel, and sometimes dangerous, but a community nevertheless | Bella Anderson | 42 |
| Reviews | ||
INSIDE MOTHERHOOD Jacqueline Rose’s personal and political 'Mothers' | Julie Stephens | 48 |
RECONCILIATION WITH PLACE AND SELF Christos Tsiolkas’ 'On Patrick White' | Kim Mahood | 49 |
THE EFFACEMENT OF HISTORY The death of public modernism in RMIT’s New Academic Street | Guy Rundle | 51 |
FILM IS A CONTINENT Alena Lodkina’s 'Strange Colours': a millennial take on regional Australia | Giles Simon Fielke | 53 |
| Poetry | ||
MARAUDERS | Kirsty Sangster | 41 |
FOREST CHILDREN | 45 | |
MELBOURNE IN WINTER | Sarah Hart | 46 |
DIFFERENCE | 47 | |
BEAUTIFUL THINGS | Edith Speers | 54 |
| Cartoons | ||
| Matt Bissett-Johnson | ||
| Cryptic Crossword | ||
| Chris Black | ||