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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... no. 158 February 2019 of Arena Magazine est. 1992 Arena Magazine
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'We seem to be experiencing a shift to a more generalised accept - ance that human-induced climate change is real. In Australia, Liberals, and liberal-progressives, are suddenly standing against the Liberal Party on climate (and refugee) grounds; the required ‘balance’ of denialist voices in mainstream media reporting seems no longer necessary, perhaps impossible to entertain; the level of activism and some common acclimatisation to, if not embracing of ‘sustainable’ agendas is noticeably broadened, if not deepened. Has some threshold been crossed? Is the sense of an ending pushing us towards new possibilities?' (Editorial introduction)

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* Contents derived from the 2019 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Problem Child of Empire, Shannyn Palmer , single work column

I begin with this quote from Ernestine Hill because her description of the Northern Territory as 'problem child of empire' evocatively captures the paradoxical nature of the 'north' in the settler-Australian imagination - from the moment British settlement pushed further inland and north in the mid-nineteenth century, the north of the continent, the Northern Territory in particular, has simultaneously been construed as both a 'promised land' and a 'white elephant'.'  (Publication abstract)

(p. 24-27)
Ten Thousand Dead Beesi"The highway lay so thick", Sarah Hart , single work poetry (p. 48)
Dockery Farmsi"Where there is praise", Sarah Hart , single work poetry (p. 48)
Did 'Protection' Protect?, Padraic Gibson , single work review
— Review of Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 Tim Rowse , 2017 multi chapter work criticism biography ;

Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 explores how, despite widespread settler belief at Federation that Indigenous people would ‘die out’, they in fact survived, and populations have grown rapidly, with debates on their position in Australian society now a defining political issue. There are important insights throughout the book and some fascinating historical material is presented from Rowse’s comprehensive research. In particular, Rowse develops a powerful devise of distinguishing between (loosely categorised) ‘South’ and ‘North’ Australia, insisting that the very idea of a unified ‘Australia’ remains a ‘Southern continental projection’ by a ‘settler-colonial nation state’.' (Introduction)

(p. 53-54)
Belonging, Dan Tout , single work review
— Review of Deep Time Dreaming : Uncovering Ancient Australia Billy Griffiths , 2018 single work autobiography ;

'Billy Griffiths’ Deep Time Dreaming has been warmly received by both an academic and a general readership, and for the most part this reception is well deserved. The book’s cover announces Griffiths’ project as that of investigating ‘a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the twentieth century, and the uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia’, and exploring ‘what it means to live in a place of great antiquity, with its complex questions of ownership and belonging’. Griffiths’ historiography of the development of Australian archaeology since the middle of the twentieth century is exceedingly well researched, well written and highly engaging.' (Introduction)

(p. 55-56)
Vanished Bohemia, Emma Fajgenbaum , single work review
— Review of Half the Perfect World : Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955–1964 Paul Genoni , Tanya Dalziell , 2018 multi chapter work biography ;

'My Brother Jack, George Johnston’s tilt at the Great Australian Novel, is distinguished for being penned from afar—not from Patrick White’s England, nor from Christina Stead’s adopted America, but from a place altogether more foreign and remote: the island of Hydra in Greece’s Saronic Gulf.'  (Introduction)

(p. 56-58)
The Lookout Man (It's All in Yer 'ead')i"Lefty schemed the heist: he’d read the plans", Robert DiNapoli , single work poetry (p. 57)

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