Arena Magazine no. 160

Editorial: A VESSEL FOR OUR HOPES?

Identity and emotion appear to be playing a role in politics neither tapped in opinion polls nor understood very well by politicos of the Left, and the centre-Left especially.

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Arena Magazine issue no. 160, 2019

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
Editorial
Alison Caddick2
Lead Graphic
HANDS OFF ASSANGE
4
Commentary
Breaking the rules to change the law
Damien Cahill5
EXPERIMENTING WITH PEOPLE’S LIVES
Jobs, income management, inequality in the Northern Territory
Adrianne Waters7
MATTEO SALVINI: LEADER OF ITALY’S ‘FRIGHT’ WING
Italy’s emerging divisions follow a worldwide pattern
Gerardo Papalia9
Prime Minister O’Neill steps down as the wolves circle
Damien Kingsbury12
BRAVE FORESIGHT IN HINDSIGHT
Australia in 2030 viewed from 1970
Ian Bayly13
FORUM
AFTER THE LOSS, WHAT COUNTRY ARE WE?
John Hinkson, Maria Rae, Josh Lourensz, Jon Altman, Kay Cook, Guy Rundle15
LETTER FROM LONDON
FROM BAEZ TO BREXIT
Some notes on protest
Gerry Simpson24
Features
On the courage of Julian Assange
Felicity Ruby and Scott Ludlam25
The UK petitioners—neoliberal feminism and its unequal outrage
Gavin Lewis31
UNDER THE RUSSIAN EYE
The implications of the Russian geopolitical narrative for future forms of war
Nicolas Hausdorf34
The anti-maternal fantasies of the alt-Right
Julie Stephens36
Arts and Culture
Stefano De Pieri44
Reviews
SEEING BEYOND PICASSO
The Vollard Suite at the Art Gallery of Ballarat
Simon Cooper47
BODIES THAT MATTER
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite and Mike Leigh’s Peterloo
Valerie Krips49
A CLASS FOR ITSELF?
The changing Left in Jeff Sparrow’s Trigger Warnings
Guy Rundle51
MONETISED LIVES
Shoshana Zuboff’s exploration of data for service The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Lizzie O’Shea53
Poetry
ENLIGHTENMENT
Paul Mitchell11
THE CROSS
Kevin Roberts33
AMBASSADOR (SAIGON, 1963)
Barry Hill39
JETTY
Kevin Roberts43
GILLY
Cartoons
Matt Bissett-Johnson
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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