Arena Magazine back issues from October 2005:
Freedom in our time.(new antiterrorism laws by Australia)(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2005 ... The performance of the Premiers at the recent Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting to hammer out new terror laws had more than a hint of the Neville Chamberlain School of Political Negotiation about it. Going in, the Premiers were talking tough. None were about to sign away ...
The era of post-politics.(british politics)
Oct 01, 2005 ... In the fusty British town of Blackpool, the British Conservative Party's 2005 Conference is, as we go to press, settling down to select a new leader--its fourth since the British Labour victory of 1996. When Labour was in opposition in the 1980s, it was widely speculated that they might ...
Bruce Petty.(Cartoon)
Oct 01, 2005 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: WHY ...
Going, going ... Telstra no longer represents the ideal of accessible communications services for all. Gerard Goggin looks ahead to a different future.(Telstra Corporation Ltd.)
Oct 01, 2005; ... After the many pitched battles fought over the national telecommunications provider, the final act of August-September 2005 was truly history repeating itself as farce. Blessed by the sturdy rural denizens of Queensland, Senator Barnaby Joyce enjoyed a brief, callow and spectacularly ...
There goes the neighbourhood: Paul James finds an insidious underside to the culture of neighbourliness in the United States.(Against the Current)(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Here in St Louis, Garrison Keilor's Prairie Home Companion radio show is on Sundays around lunch-time. I did not recognise his voice at first--he used to be syndicated on ABC radio in Australia until funding cuts meant that our national broadcaster could not afford the public-radio ...
Silent spring, summer, autumn and winter: the government's Senate majority is being used to muffle sections of civil society.(Against the Current)
Oct 01, 2005; ... The 1 July shift in the balance of power in the Senate marked the 'full strength' stage of the long-awaited offensive by the Coalition against many progressive values and achievements. Certainly the environment movement is facing changes: increased struggles on many fronts and direct ...
Regrettably, there is an exception ... the old maxim that extreme cases make for bad laws has been forgotten by today's conservatives.(Against the Current)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Let me quote from the Prime Minister's 8 September Joint Press Conference with the Attorney General, announcing his case for a 'number of very significant changes which will further strengthen our counter-terrorism laws': We are unfortunately living in an era and at a time when ...
Howard, hegemony and values: the left and the problem of mateship: Nick Dyrenfurth argues that the left needs to reclaim mateship from the right.(John Howard)
Oct 01, 2005; ... John Howard's appropriations of ideals such as 'mateship' and the 'fair go' are pertinent examples of the intersection of symbolic and material politics, one the Left must seriously (re)contemplate in the struggle against contemporary hegemony. Looking at the historical peculiarities of ...
Eureka Street.(Mag Watch)(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
Oct 01, 2005; ... In the September-October 2005 edition of Eureka Street, Tim Thwaites addresses the debate about the merits--or lack thereof --in teaching intelligent design to school students. He suggests evolution and intelligent design should not be seen as combatants, but should be left in their own ...
Third Text.(Mag Watch)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2005; ... A special guest-edited edition of Third Text (September 2005) looks at the fields of art and culture in Ireland. It 'sets out to subvert the recreational role of the arts emphasised by the Irish government in an increasingly close ...
Australian Book Review.(Mag Watch)(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
Oct 01, 2005; ... In Australian Book Review (September 2005), Lisa Gorton's cover story considers parents and children as 'Hostages to Fortune', while Cathy Sherry argues that Anne Manne's recent book Motherhood 'makes the greatest contribution to the work-family debate in ...
Overland.(Mag Watch)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2005; ... The Spring edition of Overland seeks to draw parallels between the eras of Howard and Menzies in Australia. In doing so, it references Manning Clark's summary of the post-war Australia as the 'years of unleavened bread'. Elsewhere, Peter ...
Social Alternatives.(Mag Watch)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2005; ... The most recent edition of Social Alternatives (24.2) is themed around the discussion of feminism in Australia and around the world; it tackles both where feminism has been and where it is going. Several articles look at the experiences of women in the sex industry--making observations on ...
Chain Reaction.(Mag Watch)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Friends of the Earth's national magazine, Chain Reaction (July 2005), contains a special feature on Faith & Ecology, with articles about pentecostalism, Family First, as well as Judaism and Islam, and their differing relationships to environmental values. Anna Rose, John Hepburn and ...
Beating the war drums at Fairfax: Fairfax papers have been presented as more balanced in their war coverage. Anthony O'Donnell takes a closer look.(Against the Current)
Oct 01, 2005; ... On 25 March 2003, just as the allied invasion of Iraq got underway, the Age carried a story reporting that advancing allied soldiers had discovered 'a vast chemical weapons factory' in central Iraq. The claims were quickly shown to be unfounded, but from the reporter's perspective this ...
Notable publications.
Oct 01, 2005; ... Bob Brown, Tasmania's Recherche Bay (Green Institute, September 2005) Bob Brown presents the story of two scientific research ships, Recherche and Esperance, which in 1792 reached the Tasmanian coast.There the sailors discovered a place of botanical inspiration and developed a ...
War pains: US troops returning from Iraq are paying a high price in the Bush Administration's war on terror.(Against the Current)
Oct 01, 2005; ... As the conflict in Iraq drags on deep into its third year, there is daily news of further US troop casualties. Since the start of the war in March 2003, over 1800 American troops have been killed and up to 38,000 injured, often seriously. Over recent months, US troops have participated ...
The power of shame.(John Brogden was forced to resign amidst public humiliation)
Oct 01, 2005; ... When John Brogden was forced to resign amidst public humiliation, I and many around me smugly announced that he deserved it. But when the news emerged that he had made an apparent attempt to kill himself, it was like one of those clever moments in art when the audience takes a while to ...
Taking liberties.(arrest and deportation of American peace activist Scott Parkin in australia)
Oct 01, 2005; ... This is not a police state; we have the right to demonstrate ... or do we? This is the question we must ask ourselves following the arrest and deportation of American peace activist Scott Parkin. What happened to Parkin may be only the first of a wave of sudden removals from Australia ...
Postmodernism-lite: reflections on the recent VCE English debate.(english education curriculum planning)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Designing school curriculum within a culture of information overload is an unenviable task. If education has always been a contested area, the growth of technology and information creates new dilemmas. The sciences have to balance the use of new technologies with more traditional skills of ...
Is poverty a linguistic concept?(Comment)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Rob Watts, in 'The Poverty of Poverty' (Arena Magazine78), claims moral equivalence between right-wing think-tanks like the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) and social service organisations like the Brotherhood of St Laurence, St Vincent de Paul and so on: Both sides need ...
Response to Rob Watts.(Comment)(Letter to the Editor)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Rob Watts shows a cavalier disdain for basic facts ('The Poverty of Poverty' Arena Magazine78). He says I was formerly 'professor of family studies' in the UK. I was actually a professor of sociology. He says I was 'brought to Australia by Prime Minister Howard in the late 1990s to be ...
A tale of one suburb.(social capital building )(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2005; ... I'd like to issue Rebecca Marsh and Daniel Reidpath with a challenge, following their recent critique of social capital ('Social Capital and the Business of the Middle Class', Arena Magazine76). Before doing so, I want to tell a story. There's a housing estate at Claymore, on ...
Motherhood: the modern woman's dilemma: do the current writings on motherhood represent a third wave in feminism's attempts to transform structural barriers to women's freedom and happiness?(Essay)
Oct 01, 2005; ... The so-called 'motherwars' have dominated the feminist debate in recent years. We have come full circle, it seems, since the time when separating the definition of 'woman' from that of 'mother' was at the heart of the feminist cause. Speaking to another mother at my son's kindergarten ...
The stench of abandonment: the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrine cannot be passed over as an 'act of God' that sits outside human control.(Hurricane Katrina)
Oct 01, 2005; ... The dead were left adrift in the flood, snagged in debris, slumped outside the 'shelters'. More than 1200 people died as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Reports from overwhelmed emergency workers repeat the story of having to disregard the dead in the ad hoc scramble to assist the living ....
Especially insurance fraud.(George W. Bush issued shoot to kill policy to reduce thefts during disaster)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2005 ... A series of huge explosions were reported along the riverfront in New Orleans today as hundreds of US troops with orders to shoot-to-kill looters and gunmen were sent into the flooded city. Kathleen Blanco, governor of Louisiana, said:'They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded.These ...
Not everyone gets a bar, a giant plasma screen TV and the best view of the game in their living room.(rope)
Oct 01, 2005 ... 'Almost everyone I've talked to says we're going to move to Houston.What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this is ...
Gore Vidal and the state of the union: Gore Vidal has long prophesied what has become commonplace in US politics.(Dissenting Voice)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Gore Vidal has been a presence in American literary, political and media life for over half a century. He first appeared in a newsreel in 1935 when he briefly piloted a plane as part of his father's promotion of the ease of flight; seventy years later he was giving interviews on American ...
Hubba Hubba.(New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2005 ... 'As a people Americans are easily spooked, but no enemy should ever bet against our boundless capacity for resourcefulness. We are a nation of ...
Australia: a vanishing country? Australia's laboriously built food standards are rapidly decaying under FTA pressure.(Free Trade)
Oct 01, 2005; ... What does Heinz Australia's consignment of beef from Brazil to its Wagga Wagga factory have in common with the little bags of Chinese garlic now on supermarket shelves? Or with the AUSVEG farmers' procession to Canberra? And why the weirdly lopsided, intrusive and deadly terms of ...
Resistance and identity in Western Sahara: the majority of Saharawis have been in refugee camps since 1975. Karina Clarke writes that this has been no impediment to building national identity.(Nation Building)
Oct 01, 2005; ... The Western Sahara is the last African country with defined borders to go through a complete decolonisation process. Saharawis have been waiting since 1991 for a United Nations monitored referendum to be held, which will allow them to vote for either integration with Morocco or ...
Western Sahara update: Cate Lewis on the latest developments in the Western Sahara.(Comment)
Oct 01, 2005; ... New Start for the Western Sahara Peace Process On 26 July 2005, a new UN envoy for Western Sahara was appointed. A former Dutch ambassador to the UN, Peter van Walsum, replaces former US elder statesman James Baker in this job. He has three months until the end of the present ...
Mates, multiculturalism, values: a new oz? Beyond Howard's core beliefs.
Oct 01, 2005; ... Has any country, other than those with regimes newly overthrown, gone through such a convulsion of identity-making and re-making as Australia in recent months? The London bus and subway bombings in July have shaken loose all sorts of cobwebs and bats in belfries. Reading the Australian, ...
Stumbling into dreamtime: Rod Moss gives glimpses of extraordinary everyday life in Alice Springs.(Art)(Column)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Experiences stemming from Whitegate continue to consume and confound me. I am a fourth-generation Australian, astray in my own country. There were many sources for my reverence: the sound of the Arrernte language, the barrage of requests made of me, the amount of touching and embracing ...
A Place Where Wolves Fuck.(Dead Europe)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Christos Tsiolkas, Dead Europe, Vintage, Random House, 2005 At the 16 June launch of Christos Tsiolkas's latest novel, Dead Europe, I listened to the author speaking about his struggle to come to terms with diasporic dilemmas, a globalising world and the punitive hostility to ...