EDITORIAL How has the Australian nation lurched from a militaristic intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory only months ago, to the joyous occasion of Australia’s Sorry Day in February 2008 asks ALISON CADDICK
FEATURES Lack of action about global warming is nourished by a dream world in which assumptions about the continuity of economic growth, consumerism and individualism have become ingrained writes GEOFF SHARP
ARTS AND CULTURE According to Christopher Capozzola, the process of memory formation in social contexts has two interrelated elements: the commemorative and the monumental. The SIEV X memorial in Canberra’s Weston Park also links the commemorative and the political in its performance of public memory writes JULIE STEPHENS
Simon Cooper on academic Darwinism • Paul James
and Barry K Gills on Flat Earth theories of globalization, capitalism
and the market • Tom Nairn on nations versus imperial unions
• Jo Smith on post-colonial hospitality and John
Hinkson on the future
and much more ...
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