Arena Magazine no. 157

Editorial: LABOR'S PROGRESS

In our world today where an older left progressive outlook is combined with Development as a primary value, the notion of the social itself is superseded.

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Arena Magazine issue no. 157, 2018

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
Editorial
Alison Caddick2
Lead Graphic
Matt Bissett-Johnson4
Commentary
TAKING STOCK OF THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Containing a threat we had a hand in making
Gregory Barton5
MUSLIM-SEXUAL-ABUSE MORAL PANIC
The demonisation of black male sexuality
Gavin Lewis7
POWERLESS AND VOICELESS
What has the Don Dale Royal Commission achieved?
John B. Lawrence8
AN UNSAVOURY RECORD
Timor-Leste's construction boom
James Scambary11
MYSTERY MEAT
Will the biotech industry write the rules on new GM techniques?
Louise Sales12
Features
GROUNDS FOR HOPE
Rights or compassion? Different trajectories for refugee advocacy
Klaus Neumann15
IDEAS FROM ACROSS THE DITCH
Learning from NZ social policy
Louise Humpage20
UNCHAINED RADICAL PROMETHEANS
An extract from 'Fictions of Sustainability'
Boris Frankel23
Visual Essay
ANOTHER MYANMAR
The heroin epidemic in Kachin state
Joshua Mcdonald26
SPECIAL SECTION: TRANS CHILDREN
Transgender and children’s fiction
Valerie Krips31
Understanding our limits as we allow a space for ‘transition’
Jo Taylor-Violet34
Essay
BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS
Donald Trump, Harold Bloom and the American Sublime
Robert DiNapoli37
Reflection
A CHILD OF THE GATWICK HOTEL
It was down at heel, and sometimes dangerous, but a community nevertheless
Bella Anderson42
Reviews
INSIDE MOTHERHOOD
Jacqueline Rose’s personal and political 'Mothers'
Julie Stephens48
RECONCILIATION WITH PLACE AND SELF
Christos Tsiolkas’ 'On Patrick White'
Kim Mahood49
THE EFFACEMENT OF HISTORY
The death of public modernism in RMIT’s New Academic Street
Guy Rundle51
FILM IS A CONTINENT
Alena Lodkina’s 'Strange Colours': a millennial take on regional Australia
Giles Simon Fielke53
Poetry
MARAUDERS
Kirsty Sangster41
FOREST CHILDREN
45
MELBOURNE IN WINTER
Sarah Hart46
DIFFERENCE
47
BEAUTIFUL THINGS
Edith Speers54
Cartoons
Matt Bissett-Johnson
Cryptic Crossword
Chris Black

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