Arena Magazine articles from August 2001

Arena Magazine archives from August 2001

erratum.(Correction Notice)
August 1, 2001... erratum: due to an editorial error, a pre-final draft of Amanda Johnson's `Confessions of a Spice-Girl' was published in Arena Magazine, No.53. The correct version is now on our website. Amanda Johnson teaches at the Department of English at...

WAR?(is another war coming?)
August 1, 2001... CAN WE SEE THE BEGINNINGS OF: A NEW GLOBAL CARVE-UP AND CRACKDOWN? Is war coming? Many people are beginning to consider the possibility anew. The thought had gone away in the few years after the end of the Cold War, when the likelihood of...

DIGITAL DREAMING.(Australian Labour Party's " Knowledge Nation" campaign)
August 1, 2001... LABOR'S HIGH-TECH HOPES FOR A KNOWLEDGE NATION' NAIVETY OR DARING OPPORTUNISM, ASKS JOHN HINKSON In the Federal Election of 1998 John Howard faced a policy vacuum that threatened his political survival. He managed to fill it with the Tax...

ON THE FRONTIER OF THE BIO-TECH BOOM.(ethics of the biotechnology industry)
August 1, 2001... VICTORIA EMBRACES THE GENETIC ARGUMENT WITHOUT ARGUMENT On 22 June, Steve Bracks, his Minister for State and Regional Development, John Brumby, and nigh on 140 techno-scientific fellow-travellers headed out to the Biotech 2001 trade fair in...

TALES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION.(forthcoming elections in East Timor)
August 1, 2001... COMING ELECTIONS IN EAST TIMOR FOCUS DISSATISFACTION WITH THE UNITED NATIONS ADMINISTRATION Speaking at a public meeting during the June East Timor Donors Conference in Canberra, Dill lawyer Aderito de Jesus Soares pointed out that most...

DEMOCRACY AND ITS DISCONTENTS.(East Timor's forthcoming elections)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... THE UNITED NATION'S STATE-BUILDING EXPERIMENT MEETS EAST TIMOR'S NATIONAL STRUGGLE Dili is not East Timor, but it is where everything is going on. What is happening here is partly an old story -- a city exploding with consumables,...

TIME FOR PLAN B.(violence against Colombia's indigenous people)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE UNITED STATES, INDIGENOUS GROUPS ARE UNDER FIRE IN COLOMBIA The US government's latest round of its `war on drugs', Plan Colombia, has been widely condemned for its thinly veiled support for the Colombian military...

OKINAWA SCREAMING.(military presence)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... ANTI-GLOBALISATION PROTEST IN THE AMERICAN EMPIRE Tensions in East Asia, as George W. Bush demonises North Korea and China as the world's most immediate foes, has focussed attention on the politics of the security alliance between Japan and...

THE EVAPORATION OF AUSTRALIA.(Australian national and cultural identity)
August 1, 2001... NEITHER A RETURN TO PAST LIES NOR A THEME-PARK NATIONALISM... The evaporation of Australia is continuing apace, and it may soon become impossible to invoke that name without some sort of post-modern smirk, something which has become...

OH BIG BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?(right to privacy concerns)
August 1, 2001... ECHELON -- NOT JUST THE END OF PRIVACY, BUT ALSO A NEW INDUSTRY On 30 May 2001, a European Parliamentary committee recommended that all businesses, institutions and government offices `systematically' protect themselves against the world's...

Odi et amo (I hate and I love) --Catullus.(Poem)
August 1, 2001... One slice would be enough to build a bridge across the wrist. Taking the first step back, the first forward to where it all began. Only before the mirror do love and hate negate each other. There is...

LETTERS AND DEBATE.(labor movement, manufacturing industry, Israel's military policy)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... THE CULTURAL CONDITIONS OF MUTUALISM... CHRISTOPHER SCANLON CONTINUES THE BLUE BOOK DIALOGUE In the first of the Blue Book Series, `Turning the Tide: Towards a Mutualist Philosophy and Politics for Labor and the Left' (Arena Magazine no....

WOLVERINE 301 REQUESTS YOUR ATTENTION.(aboriginal rights in Northern Terrritory, Australia)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The recent bullying by Northern Territory ministers of traditional indigenous owners mourning a revered elder at Uluru, and strange doings by southerners capturing Kimberley culture and even a very aged, unwell Aboriginal artist as trophies,...

TIME TO CHOOSE SIDES.(enrionmental movement's relations to corporations)
August 1, 2001... THE GREEN MOVEMENT AND CORPORATE POWER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY There have been a number of significant histories on the environment movement written over the last few years. However, in this time, some significant political shifts have...

THAT PETROL EMOTION.(global warming and international environmental policies)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... CLIMATE JUSTICE SINKS UNDER THE PRESSURE OF CARBON TRADING On 28 November last year, 1000 people from the Duke of York Islands in Papua New Guinea were told they were to be relocated from their homes, which were rapidly disappearing below...

DR BRITAIN.(politics and image of Tony Blair)
August 1, 2001... BLAIR -- A MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. It is not your system or clear sight that mills...

GLOBAL APARTHEID?(international policy on refugees)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... CONTROLLING IMMIGRATION IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE Ceuta is a small piece of Europe on the edge of northern Africa. Legally EU territory, Ceuta is a possible point of entry for people from central and sub-saharan Africa who, fleeing persecution,...

A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS?(national borders and immigration policy)
August 1, 2001... DEBATING THE GOOD AND BAD OF NATIONAL BOUNDARIES What does it mean when both neo-liberal globalists and their left-wing critics project different versions of the same thing -- a `borderless world'? Certainly if we step down into any...

No Logo.(Review)
August 1, 2001... No Logo, Naomi Klein, Flamingo/Harper Collins, London, 2001. No Logo author Naomi Klein recently visited Australia, which brought her book to the attention of the mainstream media and the celebrity-making machine. Klein resisted this, but...

Labor Essays 2001 - For The People.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Patmore, G. and Glover, D., eds, Labor Essays 2001 - For The People, Pluto Press, 2000. After the Olympics and the more muted celebrations of Federation there seems little for the Federal government to do except enter into electioneering...

Feminist Economics: Interrogating the Masculinity of Rational Economic Man.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Gillian J. Hewitson, Feminist Economics: Interrogating the Masculinity of Rational Economic Man, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 1999. In the weeks leading up to the 2001 Federal Budget, it was a pleasure to step back from the immediate political...

ROPE.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... IF NOTHING ELSE, IT EXPLAINS HIS SILLY WALK `I'm never embarrassed by anything.' John Howard `Old Liberals back away from threat to sue federal party', 11 May 2001 http://abc.net.au/news/2001/05/item20010511102158_1.htm Accessed...

TAKING MEDICARE FORWARD.(national health care insurance, Australia)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... The Australian health-care system is in good shape: the costs are reasonable in an international context; there are no financial barriers to access to hospital care; there is universal coverage of access to primary care; and the outcomes in...