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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)

Reading Climate Change

February 2, 2009 – 4:33 pm

John Hinkson finds that three recent books on climate change do not face up to the cultural assumptions that feed global warming.

Tagged Arena Magazine issue 99 February-March 2009, climate change, environment, John Hinkson | Comments (1)

Now for Iran

August 3, 2008 – 6:28 am

Jeremy Salt exposes the interests that lie behind calls for a strike against Iran.

Tagged Arena Magazine issue 96 August-September 2008, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Israel, Jeremy Salt, Middle East politics, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty | Comments (0)

G20 — The Legal Aftermath

April 2, 2008 – 1:16 pm

Victoria Stead sees an attempt to depoliticise protest behind the extraordinary charges brought against the G20 arrestees.

Tagged APEC, Arena Magazine issue 94 April-May 2008, Carnival Against Capitalism, Christine Nixon, G20, global protest movement, Paul Wolfewitz, Victoria Stead, World Bank | Comments (0)

Australian Guantanamo

April 2, 2008 – 1:12 pm

Pamela Curr asks if strategies of systematic de-humanisation in Australian detention centres owe anything to US torture techniques.

Tagged asylum seekers, detention centres, Guantanamo, private security, refugees | Comments (0)

Detention and Deportation: A Continuing Scandal

December 2, 2007 – 12:56 pm

GLENN NICHOLLS argues for fundamental reforms in the treatment of detainees and deportation legislation.

Tagged asylum seeker, deportation, detention, Howard government, migration, refugees | Comments (0)

Blackfella Beats and New Flows

February 2, 2007 – 2:28 pm

Powerful to Aboriginal youth, yet virtually invisible to mainstream white Australia, a new and distinctly Aboriginal form of hip-hop is gaining momentum, writes Cristina Notarpietro-Clarke.

Tagged Aboriginal culture, colonialism, hip hop, music, youth | Comments (1)

The Reality of TV

June 2, 2006 – 9:08 am

Television isn’t to blame for every social ill but neither is it neutral, write Melinda Hinkson.

Tagged media, modernity, technology, television, TV | Comments (0)

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