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Editorial

The Fiery Breath of Change?
ALISON CADDICK

Lead Graphic

LEUNIG

Against the Current

Murdoch’s Boyer Lectures
What were Murdoch’s credentials for this job?
SIMON COOPER

Understanding Maningrida’s High Court Challenge
Legal technicalities obscure the NT Intervention’s racist foundations
JON ALTMAN

War Crimes Trials in Cambodia
Has the war crimes tribunal process worked?
GEORGIA WILKINS

Floating Plastic — The Eighth Continent
A monstrous gyre collects our garbage
JANET L. HO

Bites

Environmental Despair
What attitude to take in the face of destruction?
TERRY LEAHY

The Sacrifice of the Casuals
Universities eat their own
DAVID RATHBONE

Death Row in Afghanistan
Justice and the freedom of expression in Afghanistan
ANDREW GLEESON

A Cruel Twist: The GOP Shuts Down Government
Didn’t the Americans shrink government a long time ago?
DON MONKERUD

Open Letter to Kevin Rudd
For the Gazans
JOHN DOCKER and NED CURTHOYS

Letters and Comment

The Old Housing Pea and Thimble Trick?
JOHN ENTICOTT

Response to Claire Wright Responding to Climate Change
KATE DAW

Carbon Trading: Much Ado about Nothing
Rudd’s ETS: more dangerous than inadequate
DEL WESTON

Reading Climate Change
New books, old and unsustainable assumptions
JOHN HINKSON

Features

The Reckoning
Were war crimes committed in Gaza?
JEREMY SALT

Eyeless in Gaza
Founding violence, violent mindsets, and the incapacity to see
LES ROSENBLATT

Sorry for What?
How the Apology hid our colonialist past from us
CHARLOTTA LOMAS

Essay

The Autistic Savant as Cultural Inspiration
Autism as representation of neo-liberal subjectivity
MARK FURLONG

Regulars

Everybody Knows
MATT RYAN

Postcard

We Come Bearing Gifts
On being ‘other’ in Korea
PHIL JOHNSON

Arts and Culture

Australia: The Epic that Wasn’t
The fairytale format flounders
VALERIE KRIPS

The Retro of Oz Electro
The phantasmagoria of recent Australian music
BEN ELTHAM

Reviews

Re-imagining Van Diemen’s Land
Refashioning Australian history
SHINO KONISHI

Liberalism’s Contradictory Logic
ANDY BLUNDEN

Governance for Non-Profit Organisations
How to avoid the de-humanisation of risk-management regimes
PETER GOGOROSIS

Poetry

Annunciation, Professor Y
B. N. OAKMAN

Photographic Series

Ceasefire! Images from anti-war demonstrations in Israel
JESSE BOYLAN

 

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