Arena Magazine no. 162

EDITORIAL: WHAT GRETA MEANS

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

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Arena Magazine issue no. 162, 2019

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Alison Caddick2
LEAD GRAPHIC
Michael Leunig4
COMMENTARY
A visit to Belmarsh maximum-security prison
Felicity Ruby5
GOING NEGATIVE
Negative interest rates and the slow crisis of capitalism
John Hinkson7
As Indonesian brutality intensifies, the Papuan struggle for independence reaches a crisis
Peter Arndt9
‘IF WE DON’T DIG IT UP, SOMEONE ELSE WILL’
Australia’s big climate lie exposed
Rod Campbell11
REPLY
INDIGENOUS INSTITUTIONAL EXCLUSION
A reply to Humphrey McQueen
Barry Morris13
FEATURES
SECRETS, LIES AND OIL
The background to the Witness K and Bernard Collaery cases
Craig Fairweather15
Back on the political agenda in Australia, but for what benefit?
Tilman Ruff19
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND FRESHWATER IN NEW ZEALAND
Testing treaty obligations against agricultural damage
Sarah Down23
Stories for suckers, and corporate capture of the UN
Catherine Coumans31
LIQUID HOUSING
How the purpose of housing and the community-housing sector are being deformed
Joanne Knight34
VISUAL ESSAY
DEEP NORTH 2013–19
Matthew Stanton26
ALAN ROBERTS PRIZE ESSAYS
Complicity with our own destruction: can we break out of our cultural dependencies?
Stephen Pascoe37
Experiencing the uncanny nuclear
N. A. J. Taylor42
REFLECTION
LONELY WITNESS
Aid workers returning home
Kirsty Sangster47
REVIEWS
A WAY FORWARD?
Lizzie O’Shea’s Future Histories
Tim Dunlop49
LATER, AS POETRY
Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But the Mountains
Roger Rees50
MUTE MELANCHOLY
KAWS: Companionship in the Age of Loneliness
Guy Rundle51
VIOLENT MEN
Jess Hill’s See What You Made Me Do
Grazyna Zajdow53
POETRY
THE STILLNESS OF THE DAYS BEFORE
Holly Day18
FLOWERS IN SHADES
52
NIL
Louis Faber25
COUNTING TIME
54
FOR THE WOMEN
Edith Speers22
CARTOONS
Matt Bissett-Johnson
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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