Issue 78
August-September 2005

Editorial

Know Your Product; Multiculturalism: Stones and Bones; Ripe For a New Politics;  Arena and the Internet

LEAD GRAPHIC FIONA KATAUSKAS

Against the Current

A Hidden Tipping Point? Signs of real democratic change in the UK
Tom Nairn

Weakening the Brand. The erosion of the University
Andrew Nette

Nelson's Lament. Just what the Education Minister ordered
Christopher Scanlon

Professing Ignorance. Andrew Fraser's closed discussion
Guy Rundle

Hidden Money. Calling for transparency in political funding
Lee Rhiannon and Norman Thompson

Sports Frankenstein. Character, commerce and cloning in sport
Lindsay Fitzclarence

What a Carve-Up! Customary land tenure in the Pacific
Jim Fingleton


 

Fitter, Happier, More Productive . Captivating kids with advertising in schools
Damien Pitts

The Neo-Con Circus. Forbes Global sails into Sydney
James Goodman

Lesbians: The Invisible Torture.
A global struggle against rape and torture

Susan Hawthorne

Essay

After the London Bombing: An Exercise in Avoiding the Truth
John Hinkson

Features

The Phantom Solution
Nuclear’s ghost of a chance
Alan Roberts

Beauty and Misogyny
The violence of cosmetic surgery

Sheila Jeffreys

Oil-Slicked Diplomacy
China’s dubious deals
James Clasper

The Poverty of Poverty
Saunders vs. Saunders on inequality in Australia
Rob Watts

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Bites

BEN GOOK Liberal Theory of Populist Relativity * GUY RUNDLE The Sleep of Reason * ANDREA CALLY Wake Up to Reality * CHRISTOPHER SCANLON Calorie Culture * GUY RUNDLE Niger De-Politicised

Review

Human Remains Kate Cregan

Creative Mythmaking Christopher Scanlon

Regulars

MAG WATCH
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

PETER JULL Vanstone’s Silver Bullets
COOPER'S LAST
The Rise of Expert Culture
RED HERRICK How to be Tabloid

COMMENT PHILIP MENDES; BEL VIDAL

Trawlings

Why the Extremism Taskforce Will Fail
Blair’s third way for Islam

Josie Appleton

POETRY
Roundabouts Robyn Rowland
When the Living Susan Hawthorne