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The Militarisation of Defence

March 11, 2011 – 10:25 am

The Defence White Paper assumes an aggressive posture and receives unprecedented funding

Also posted in Arena Magazine Feature | Tagged Afghanistan, ANZAC, Arena Magazine February-March 2011, Australian Defence Forces, Australian Federal Police, Defence Department, Defence White Paper, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, East Timor, Iraq, John Langmore, military expenditure, peacekeeping, security, solomon islands, terrorism, The Australian Strategic Policy Institute | Comments (2)

Health Activisim to Health ‘Consumers’

January 2, 2011 – 10:18 am

New Public Management, neo-liberalism and the capture of health activism

Tagged Arena Magazine December-January 2011, Department of Health, Evelyne de Leeuw, Hans Lofgren, Health Activism, health care, health insurance, health policy, Medicines policy, Michael Leahy, neo-liberalism | Comments (0)

Water in a Geo-political Context

November 14, 2010 – 11:08 am

Lindsay Fitzclarence on the need for alternative perspectives about water policies and the Murray-Darling Basin

Tagged Anthropology, Australian farming, colonisation, cotton, desalinisation, electricity, England, environment, environmentalism, global trade, Indigenous Australians, irrigation, Lindsay Fitzclarence, media, Murray-Darling Basin, nation building, public ownership, rainfall, sustainability, sustainable development, Water, water policy, water quality | Comments (0)

Papua’s Fallen Leaders

October 14, 2010 – 10:39 am

Anyone who emerges as a leader of the West Papuan people is setting out on a dangerous path

Tagged activism, annexation, Anthropology, Arnold Ap, assassination, democracy, Dr Thomas Wainggai, hostages, Indonesia, Kelly Kwalik, local radio, mining, protest, security forces, strike, subversion, Suharto, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Theys Hijo Eluay, United States, West Papua | Comments (0)

The School as Market

September 2, 2010 – 1:09 pm

‘Equity’ and ‘choice’ delude Labor and create inequities for generations of students

Tagged Arena Magazine August-September 2010, Australian higher education, Bill Hannan, education policy, Education Revolution, Julia Gillard, Labor, Melbourne Declaration, my school website, public education, universities | Comments (0)

My University

July 2, 2010 – 8:47 pm

Rod Beecham on The reductio ad absurdum of Commonwealth education policy

Tagged academic research, Arena Magazine June-July 2010, DEEWR, education policy, employment, My University website, Rod beecham, technology, technosciences, universities | Comments (0)

Social Housing or Private Profit?

March 2, 2010 – 4:46 pm

Public–private partnerships in Rudd’s new housing affordability scheme offer developers more than they offer the poor writes Joanne Knight

Tagged Arena Magazine Feature, Arena Magazine February-March 2010, government housing, homelessness, Housing crisis, Joanne Knight, National Rental Affordability Scheme, Rudd Government | Comments (2)

On Peter Sutton’s Pietism

January 2, 2010 – 8:41 am

Roland Boer traces the use of ‘pietism and sacrimentalism’ in Peter Sutton’s writing on White Australia and Aborignal reconciliation.

Tagged Arena Magazine December-January 2010, Arena Magazine Feature, Indigenous Australians, Peter Sutton, Pietism, reconciliation, Roland Boer, Sacramentalism, Theology | Comments (0)

Losing Paradise

November 3, 2009 – 7:52 am

As rising sea levels displace island peoples in the Pacific region, should we ask what they want done? Writes Nic Maclellan

Tagged Arena magazine November 2009, border security, climate change, climate policy, climate refugees, Nic Maclellan, pacific islands, solomon islands | Comments (3)

Wild Law

April 2, 2009 – 2:37 pm

Counter to the laws of private property, jurisprudence based in the rights of Nature is possible, writes Peter Burden.

Tagged anthropocentrism, Arena Magazine issue 100 April-June 2009, aul Babie, David Suzuki, Earth Jurisprudence, environment, Friends of the Earth, Peter Burden, The Sacred Balance, United Nations Millennium Assessment | Comments (0)

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