Arena Magazine issue no. 162, 2019
Contents
Title | Author | PagePg. |
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EDITORIAL | ||
Alison Caddick | 2 | |
LEAD GRAPHIC | ||
Michael Leunig | 4 | |
COMMENTARY | ||
A visit to Belmarsh maximum-security prison | Felicity Ruby | 5 |
GOING NEGATIVE Negative interest rates and the slow crisis of capitalism | John Hinkson | 7 |
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 |
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 |
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 | ||
Complicity with our own destruction: can we break out of our cultural dependencies? | Stephen Pascoe | 37 |
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 |