Arena Magazine no. 162

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EDITORIAL: WHAT GRETA MEANS

No death cult here: broadening and deepening the eco-protest

Arena Magazine issue no. 162, 2019

Title	Author	PagePg.
EDITORIAL
WHAT GRETA MEANS	Alison Caddick	2
LEAD GRAPHIC
	Michael Leunig	4
COMMENTARY
ASSANGE BEHIND BARS A visit to Belmarsh maximum-security prison	Felicity Ruby	5
GOING NEGATIVE Negative interest rates and the slow crisis of capitalism	John Hinkson	7
WE ARE NOT MONKEYS! As Indonesian brutality intensifies, the Papuan struggle for independence reaches a crisis	Peter Arndt	9
‘IF WE DON’T DIG IT UP, SOMEONE ELSE WILL’ Australia’s big climate lie exposed	Rod Campbell	11
REPLY
INDIGENOUS INSTITUTIONAL EXCLUSION A reply to Humphrey McQueen	Barry Morris	13
FEATURES
SECRETS, LIES AND OIL The background to the Witness K and Bernard Collaery cases	Craig Fairweather	15
NUCLEAR PROMISES Back on the political agenda in Australia, but for what benefit?	Tilman Ruff	19
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND FRESHWATER IN NEW ZEALAND Testing treaty obligations against agricultural damage	Sarah Down	23
MINING THE DEEP SEA Stories for suckers, and corporate capture of the UN	Catherine Coumans	31
LIQUID HOUSING How the purpose of housing and the community-housing sector are being deformed	Joanne Knight	34
VISUAL ESSAY
DEEP NORTH 2013–19	Matthew Stanton	26
ALAN ROBERTS PRIZE ESSAYS
THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS Complicity with our own destruction: can we break out of our cultural dependencies?	Stephen Pascoe	37
ENCOUNTERS WITH NUCLEAR SPACE AND TIME Experiencing the uncanny nuclear	N. A. J. Taylor	42
REFLECTION
LONELY WITNESS Aid workers returning home	Kirsty Sangster	47
REVIEWS
A WAY FORWARD? Lizzie O’Shea’s Future Histories	Tim Dunlop	49
LATER, AS POETRY Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But the Mountains	Roger Rees	50
MUTE MELANCHOLY KAWS: Companionship in the Age of Loneliness	Guy Rundle	51
VIOLENT MEN Jess Hill’s See What You Made Me Do	Grazyna Zajdow	53
POETRY
THE STILLNESS OF THE DAYS BEFORE	Holly Day	18
FLOWERS IN SHADES		52
NIL	Louis Faber	25
COUNTING TIME		54
FOR THE WOMEN	Edith Speers	22
CARTOONS
	Matt Bissett-Johnson
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
	Chris Black

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Arena Magazine no. 162

EDITORIAL: WHAT GRETA MEANS

Arena Magazine issue no. 162, 2019

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