Recently added articles from Arena Magazine:

Just a beginning.(Editorial)

Feb 01, 2008; Caddick, Alison ... How has the Australian nation lurched from fairly widespread support amongst white Australians and the media for a militaristic intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory only months ago, to the serious, joyous occasion of Australia's Sorry Day in February 2008? Of ...

[Cartoon].(Comic)(Cartoon)

Feb 01, 2008; Hinze, Heinrich ... O.K .... THIS YEAR FOR SURE I'M DEFINITELY ...

Blood markets.(AGAINST THE CURRENT)(Essay)

Feb 01, 2008; Hinkson, John ... The wild gyrations on global stock markets; the announcements of massive losses by the largest US banks; the significant decline in property values now taking hold in the United States and United Kingdom; the announcement of $8 billion losses in rogue derivatives trading in Europe ...

Putting single mothers to work.(AGAINST THE CURRENT)

Feb 01, 2008; Branigan, Elizabeth ... The phrase 'working families', so over used by Kevin Rudd in the recent federal election campaign, had a particular bite for many single mothers trying to manage the 'work-life collision' of welfare reform. Introduced on 1 July 2006, the reforms are based on the belief that employment ...

Three-dimensional economics.(AGAINST THE CURRENT)

Feb 01, 2008; Fitzgerald, Karl ... In a period where the twin crises of global warming and the wealth gap are attacking society from both sides, policy makers are continually limited in their effectiveness by a two-dimensional approach to economics. Land prices have increased at four times the rate of GDP and ...

Who let the dogs out?(AGAINST THE CURRENT)

Feb 01, 2008; Melzer, Dave ... Sport is a defining feature not only of how we Australians see ourselves but also how the rest of the world sees us. The fact that we even exist in the consciousness of many is due to the deeds of our sporting teams. Given this, it is unfortunate that Australia's most prominent sporting ...

Empowering Aboriginal communities.(AGAINST THE CURRENT)(Report)

Feb 01, 2008; Spindler, Sid ... Leaving aside the global question of climate change, the rebuilding of our relationship with Indigenous Australians into a partnership based on justice is the greatest and most urgent task facing the new Rudd government. This means achieving living standards and life opportunities for ...

Merri Creek: a photographic series.(Brief article)

Feb 01, 2008; Stanton, Matthew ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] These images are part of a photographic inquiry into the significance of the Merri Creek as a site of shifting cultural histories and agendas. Where such histories and politics converge, an uncertain, transitional landscape emerges. From the initial ...

Northwest Passage rediscovered.(Report)

Feb 01, 2008; Jull, Peter ... The Northwest Passage was one of those big ideas mingling geopolitical and economic hope with futuristic fantasy for centuries, and generating much practical European maritime exploration at the cost of many lives. Captain Cook's final voyage was in part an attempt to find the western end ...

On academic Darwinism.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

Feb 01, 2008; Davis, Glyn ... Congratulations to Simon Cooper on his close reading of my National Press Club speech (Arena Magazine 90). The presentation passed without any significant commentary, and the paper launched that day vanished almost without trace. As far as I know, Simon is the only person to have reflected ...

The appeal of Obama.(bites: BRIEF NOTES ON NEWS AND VIEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD)(Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign)

Feb 01, 2008; Wilson, John K. ... The battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential nomination is much more than a duel between mega-celebrities. It's a war about the past and the future of American politics, and a fight for the soul of the Democratic Party. ...

Brazil's Australian-style 'intervention'.(bites: BRIEF NOTES ON NEWS AND VIEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD)(Report)

Feb 01, 2008; Schertow, John ... There's a new law being debated in Brazil that threatens to undermine the rights and livelihoods of all indigenous people in this South American nation. Through twisting the letter and intent of International Labour Organisation convention 169, among other International agreements and ...

The raw and the cooked.(Australians' localism movements)

Feb 01, 2008; O'Donnell, Anthony ... Daylesford is a spa town in Victoria's central highlands. My dad's spinster aunts and bachelor uncles enjoyed its guesthouses between the wars, but when I started visiting in the late 1980s it was just emerging from a long period of decline. Eating out meant jaffles in homey tea rooms or ...

'Merri Creek': a photographic series.

Feb 01, 2008; Stanton, Matthew ... on Melbourne's northern waterways ....

A revolutionary Bible? Thomas Muntzer and Gerrard Winstanley: Roland Boer writes on the Peasants' Revolt and the True Levellers.(Essay)

Feb 01, 2008; Boer, Roland ... My guess is that most readers of this magazine would find a 'revolutionary Bible' an oxymoron, much like Christian communism or religious secularism. Surely you cannot put that textbook of repression and conservatism in a touching embrace with revolution? But that is exactly what I want to ...

Climate change is not the basic issue: Geoff Sharp argues that the technoscience--capitalism convergence has supercharged climate change. We need a movement to tackle that.(Essay)

Feb 01, 2008; Sharp, Geoff ... No, it's not really just about climate change. Nor is it just about the way climate change can affect the viability of all living things. At least in the short term, the public inability to focus on the underlying sources of climate change is equally important. It runs along with the ...

The Bali roadmap and beyond: Peter Christoff charts the highs and lows of the Bali climate change convention.

Feb 01, 2008; Christoff, Peter ... Halfway through the Thirteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 13) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a major earthquake shook Bali. Perhaps it was a sign of what was to come. By the close of the conference a week later, the earth's geopolitical axis had shifted ...

Driving inequality: Frank Stilwell asks should we accept the prevailing political-economic arrangements that generate inequality.(Report)

Feb 01, 2008; Stilwell, Frank ... 'A rising tide lifts all boats' is an expression commonly used by economists and politicians to justify prioritising economic growth and neglecting the distribution of income and wealth. It has had particular resonance in the last decade. As Australia has become wealthier, material living ...

The Gaza breakout: Jeremy Salt writes on the collective punishment of the Gazans and asks where it will lead.(Report)

Feb 01, 2008; Salt, Jeremy ... The significance of the mass breakout from Gaza is still sinking in among all those affected, including the Palestinians themselves (the people, their legitimate government in Gaza and the quisling leadership in Ramallah), Israel, the United States, the European Union and the Arab ...

Commemorating the SIEV X: Julie Stephens on memory and memorial activism.(ARTS AND CULTURE)

Feb 01, 2008; Stephens, Julie ... The SIEV X memorial in Canberra's Weston Park raises crucial questions about the politics of memory. It also raises issues about how the cultural history of asylum in Australia at the beginning of the millennium will be recorded. Unique in Australia, the 353 hand-painted poles each ...