Leaving Them Out for the Dingoes
Following the budget, the first draft of this editorial began ‘So now it is the turn of the disabled to be the new scapegoats’. But we did not reckon with the speed and efficiency of the Howard...
View ArticleBlood from a Stone
The era of practical reconciliation is a wrong turn in the road. It is more than a backward step. A backward step would seem to indicate that the ground that has been lost can be easily regained. This...
View ArticleTreaty Talk 2002: Notes on Three Conferences
Arena has become a vehicle for Indigenous intellectuals to assert a ‘right-based’ approach to public policy on Indigenous affairs. Against a Howard government that insists that only ‘practical...
View ArticleEasing Out and Squeezing In
Mark Latham’s rise to the Labor leadership sent a ripple of hope through the centre-Left and small ‘l’ liberals. And with good reason. A third Howard Government would ensconce a Government whose...
View ArticleHidden Money
People or groups who donate to political parties are currently required to report the donation if it is over $1500 — a barrier against hidden donations and lack of accountability, right? Wrong. In...
View ArticleKnow Your Product
Clearly, members of the Howard government have been surprised at the success of the labour movement’s campaign against the IR laws — although whether John Howard himself is one of them remains to be...
View ArticleSomething Old, Something New
A friend of mine recently recounted a story about some friends of hers, a lesbian couple, who had had a falling out with some friends of theirs, a gay male couple. The two couples had fought because...
View ArticleDetention and Deportation: A Continuing Scandal
The Cornelia Rau and Vivian Alvarez scandals in 2005 brought intense pressure on the Immigration Department to be more careful in carrying out deportations and incarcerating potential deportees. The...
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