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- Arena Magazine
- A magazine featuring commentary on Australian politics and culture from a left-wing perspective. Includes book, film, and theater reviews. Academic interest.
Most Recent Articles from Arena Magazine 
Geoffrey Boucher on moving beyond the 'cultural left' versus the 'social Left' polarisation
Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth (eds), Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange London and New York, Verso, 2003...
10/1/04 by Geoffrey Boucher · More from publicationKorea's new wave: does the phenomenal success of South Korea's highly protected film industry offer timely lessons for Australia?
In January 2004, around 5 million Seoulites went to the movies, almost half of this modern metropolis's population. By any standards that is pretty...
10/1/04 by John Duerden · More from publicationWhose life?
George Bush's policies on abortion and his invasion of Iraq can be seen as part of the same ideology --one based on his professed belief in the...
10/1/04 by Rachel Power · More from publicationThe ballad of Rene Rivkin
Rene Rivkin, the 'flamboyant' stockbroker is only part way along the roller-coaster ride of his nine-month jail sentence, negotiated through what...
10/1/04 by I.M. Dooley · More from publicationSado-workism: the new culture of work in Australia: since the late 1970s, Australia has witnessed the reinvigoration of a type of sadism in the workplace as...
There are important moments in history when people say 'fuck work' and assert their right to be lazy. The late twentieth century French anarchists...
10/1/04 by Boris Frankel · More from publicationPia Smith on Somersault's burden
According to Terry Lane (Sunday Age, 19/9/04), the protagonist of Cate Shortland's debut feature film, Somersault, is 'a masterpiece of a...
10/1/04 by Pia Smith · More from publication