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No Break from ‘All That’?

May 2, 2010 – 10:19 am

Robert Manne and David McKnight’s plan to reform social democracy misses fundamental questions about the sources of the climate crisis writes Geoff Sharp

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Arena Magazine April-May 2010, climate change, climate crisis, David McKnight, Goodbye to All That?, Quiggin, Robert Manne, Rudd, technosciences, The Monthly | Comments (1)

Contracting Out Indigenous Futures

September 10, 2009 – 12:48 pm

Noel Pearson and Peter Sutton both take an assimilationist turn writes Geoff Sharp

Posted in arena essay | Also tagged Arena Magazine issue 101 August-September 2009, Indigenous Australians, Noel Pearson, Peter Sutton | Comments (1)

Reflections on the Current Condition

April 2, 2009 – 1:53 pm

The Arena publications respond to the current crisis. By Geoff Sharp, Nonie Sharp, John Hinkson, Paul James, Alison Caddick, Simon Cooper

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Alison Caddick, Arena Magazine issue 100 April-June 2009, Beyond Left and Right, David McKnight, Dissent, global financial crisis, John Hinkson, Kenneth Davidson, Nonie Sharp, Overland, Paul James, Simon Cooper, The Monthly, the third way | Comments (0)

Knowledge Now: Its Unintended Consequences

April 2, 2008 – 1:15 pm

Geoff Sharp identifies the university as the new engine of neo-liberal capitalism and asks if we are in touch with the unintended consequences of this historic alliance.

Posted in arena essay | Also tagged 2020 Summit, Adam Smith, Arena Magazine issue 94 April-May 2008, Australian higher education, F. A. Hayek, Glyn Davis, John Dawkins, Kevin Rudd, neo-liberalism, Robert Manne, University of Melbourne | Comments (0)

In Terror and Hope

October 2, 2001 – 7:57 pm

Guy Rundle

Posted in Arena Magazine Editorial, editorial | Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Albanian terrorists, Andy Butfoy, Angela Mitropoulos, anti-globalisation, anti-semitism, biological weapons, chemical weapons, civil liberties, civil society, colonialism, Damien Lawson, development, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, ethnic cleansing, executive power, foreign policy, free trade, GATT, George W Bush, global justice, globalisation, Gulf War, Guy Rundle, heroin, holocaust, International Monetary Fund (IMF), IRA, Iraq, Jimmy Carter, John Hinkson, John Howard, Kashmiri terrorists, Kimberley Serca, Kosovo, labour rights, malnutrition, market, militant Islam, Mullah Omar, Nauru, Nehal Bhuta, neo-liberalism, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine, peace movement, Pentagon, preventable disease, propaganda, protectionism, reconciliation, refugee action movement, security, shar’ia, solidarity, sovereignty, Taliban, terror organisations, terrorism, UN Security Council, United Nations (UN), United States, violence, war, Winston Churchill, World Bank, World Trade Centre (WTC), World Trade Organization (WTO), Zapatista uprising | Comments (0)

What Hope for Years to Come?

October 2, 2001 – 7:53 pm

Geoff Sharp: In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the tension between religious piety and imperial power reveals the urgent need for re-examination of the new social forms

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged 9/11, civilisation, colonialism, community, conscience, consumption, democracy, elites, gender, George W Bush, globalisation, government, high tech, humanism, individualism, inequality, international markets, market, market fundamentalism, materialism, mediation, modernity, mortality, oppression, peace movement, reconciliation, religion, self-gratification, state terrorism, technology, technosciences, terrorism, United Nations (UN), United States, war, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments (0)

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