Arena Quarterly issue no. 15, 2023
Contents
Title | Author | PagePg. |
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Editorial | ||
Alison Caddick | 2 | |
Voice | ||
Uluru has been repurposed to vote up a powerless advisory body | Michael Mansell | 4 |
Treaty and Voice were spoken of from the moment the 1967 referendum was won | Marilyn Lake | 8 |
Claims to care about ‘our First Australians’ reveal a virulent white supremacy | Brian Burkett | 11 |
A Yes vote won’t change whose constitution it is, a No vote won’t take the struggle back decades | Celeste Liddle | 15 |
World | ||
The Robodebt report is to be commended, but deeper social processes are in play | John Hinkson | 19 |
It's now pro-Putin to refer to any and all history in looking over the Russia-Ukraine disaster | Gerry Simpson | 24 |
A conservative and realist appraisal of Russia’s invasion and Ukraine’s chances | Gray Connolly | 28 |
The US thinks India is no more than an anti- China bulwark while Modi remakes Asia | Binoy Kampmark | 33 |
Country | ||
Even searching accounts of Australia’s founding can’t resist an assimilationist logic | Dan Tout | 36 |
Can Australia learn from Germany’s notion of Erinnerungskultur to confront our genocidal past? | Andreas Pohl | 46 |
Greenwashing fossil fuel expansion in northern Australia | Kristy Howey | 52 |
Environment | ||
Talking to survivors of the Northern Rivers catastrophe | David Ritter | 60 |
Theory | ||
Atlantic chattel-slaveries and the revolution inside capital | Humphrey McQueen | 69 |
Arts and Culture | ||
Ahmed Faraz, Poet of Love and Hope Poetry of witness and inspiration for Pakistan’s people and beyond | Ali Shehzad Zaidi | 76 |
Reviews | ||
The Elusiveness of Young Donald Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country, by Ryan Cropp | Guy Rundle | 84 |
Rubbing/Loving Do Ho Suh at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | Christian Caiconte | 87 |
Fire in the Head? Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer | Richard King | 93 |
MAark Furlong The Universities and Israel Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine, by Nick Riemer | Mark Furlong | 95 |
Poetry | ||
The Aukward Situation | Mitchell Welsh | 18 |
Words Like Small Birds | Michael Edwards | 68 |
Mushrooms / On Earth / A Song for My Granddaughter / Fish / Lullaby | Cally Conan-Davies | 80 |