Arena – Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

1 Dec 2022

Any public debate on de-extinction technologies must take account of the broader processes that are bringing such affordances into being, and the long-term social and psychological effects of regarding the latter as self-evident progress.

The LGBTIQ Community Must Stand Up To Drug Companies To End HIV/AIDS

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James May

1 Dec 2022

The widespread medicating of the LGBTIQ community is not something to celebrate – it’s deeply troubling.

Pandemic Politics

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Alison Broinowski

1 Dec 2022

In epidemiology, MacIntyre says, not everything is as it seems. She mistrusts some of her colleagues who put their reputations and grant applications ahead of scientific evidence and public health.

The Technoking and the Town Square: Musk, Twitter and radical individualism

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Guy Rundle

18 Nov 2022

Many of its frequent users have spoken recently of the tragedy of Twitter being destroyed 'as a community', it is clearly nothing like a community in any real sense. Indeed it substitutes for real community in its absence.

In the Pink

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Humphrey McQueen

18 Nov 2022

Dunstan had led the way with clothes reform in parliament, first with safari suits and then by appearing with neither coat nor tie.

Inner workings: On Conspiracies

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John W. Moyle

18 Nov 2022

Perversely, distrust of these institutions means that when people’s intuitions appear to be rejected, or the knowledge they value undermined, it becomes a type of validation: if they say it’s false, it must be true!

Degrowth, Green Growth, Post-Growth?

Arena Quarterly no.11

John Wiseman

Sep 2022

These key questions about the imagination and creation, financing, and governance of prosperous and resilient post-carbon communities are, as the authors of these five books forcefully argue, also vital starting points for the work required to strengthen support for reduced consumption and for post-growth ways of life.

Zero Gravity: Floating towards posthumanism

Arena Quarterly no.11

Richard King

Sep 2022

The transition to the posthuman will not turn on any Judgment Day scenario, but will be a slow and incremental process of quantity turning into quality.

Vision Mātauranga: Commodifying Māori knowledge

Arena Quarterly no.11

Keith Barber

Sep 2022

Clearly, the government ... needed a new paradigm, one that placed Māori research under its control and oriented it towards its own policy goals, disguised albeit as in the ‘interests of the nation as a whole’.

I’m still Dreaming of a Black Xmas stamp

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Humphrey McQueen

3 Nov 2022

In over sixty-six years of Christmas stamps, Australia has never issued one featuring an Aboriginal artwork, let alone a Black Virgin and Christ child.

From the Archive

Green Pathways to a People’s Future

Arena Quarterly no. 1

Adam Bandt

‘Fire’ may be an appropriate way to think and talk about the climate-change emergency, not just because we are literally dealing with a burning world but also because it does not bring with it the concerns associated with ‘rule by emergency’.

From the Archive

The Tip of the Democracy-Sinking Iceberg

Timothy Erik Ström

There is a curious and seldom-told backstory and parallel story to the high-profile Cambridge Analytica scandal, one that makes the notorious firm seem like the tip of the democracy-sinking iceberg.

Statement Against Racism in Western Australia

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John Kinsella

3 Nov 2022

Colonialism is a system of violent occupation, theft and exclusion, and systematising of this occupation through generations and into any imagined future.

Too Big To Tax: North West Shelf and lessons for sharing in our sovereign wealth

Arena Quarterly no.11

David Lee, Clinton Fernandes

Sep 2022

For as long as fossil fuels are being extracted, the Australian people should receive an equitable share of the profits from the sale of non-renewable natural resources. This will help them to adapt to climate change and manage the transition to a renewable economy.

Threats and Conflict in the Middle East

Arena Quarterly no.11

Amin Saikal

Sep 2022

Israel’s status as a nuclear state means that the threat of nuclear proliferation is constant.

Algeria’s Sexist Family Code Is Long Overdue for Reform

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Jyhene Kebsi

21 Oct 2022

This Code proclaims women to be minors under the law, as it defines their existence only as daughters, mothers or wives.

The Burtons and Bandung

Arena Quarterly no.11

Alison Broinowski

Sep 2022

If Australia’s opportunity to join the non-aligned nations faltered with the ANZUS Treaty in 1952, it died at Bandung.

The Hydra of Albion: The Monster Beneath the British Crisis

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Paul Gardner

21 Oct 2022

The narcissism associated with Empire permeates British society from the playing fields of Eton to the terraces of football clubs up and down England,

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