Contents
Regulars
Jeff Sparrow − Editorial
Features
Mattias Gardell − Terror in the Norwegian woods
The rise of a anti-Muslim far Right in Europe
Robert Bollard − Who was Bet B?
Aboriginality and identity
Xavier Rizos− Will the market save us?
The logic of a carbon tax
Brad Nguyen – Morality begone!
Interpreting violence in the age of riots and revolution
Stephanie Convery and Katrina Fox
Sexing up animal rights: is it wrong?
A discussion
Rjurik Davidson – ‘You are sick! This is not art!’
Torture porn films and politics
Sarah Drummond − Whale, daughter
A slow death at sea
Language and politics in Indigenous writing
A PEN forum
Arnold Zable
John Bradley
Kim Scott
Marie Munkara
Peter Slezak – Silence resembling stupidity
The New Atheists and Islam
Meanland: Caroline Hamilton – Sympathy for the devil?
Small presses and free markets
Debate
Robert Lukins versus Ali Alizadeh
That Australian Poetry should attempt to bring poetry into the mainstream
Robert Lukins − Affirmative
Ali Alizadeh − Negative
Robert Lukins − Rebuttal
Ali Alizadeh − Rebuttal
Fiction
Stephen Muecke − Experiment No. 1 in Animal Tourism
Louise Pine − Letter to a small village
Alexis Wright − extract from The Swan Book
Poetry
Cameron Lowe − Theatre
Cath Drake − Fresh Kill
Eileen Chong – Mary: A Fiction
Angela Smith – Jennifer Maiden woke up in The Lodge
Stuart Barnes – sad
Molly Guy – Edith’s dead mother
D J Huppatz – Bite the Wax Tadpole | Heide | One February or July
Maketh Ajak – I need the finger of God inside my mind
Phillip Hall – At Wentworth Falls
Ruby Todd – the supplement
Stuart Cooke – Elites
Cover
Yhonnie Scarce, What they wanted 2006–2010
courtesy the artist and Dianne Tanzer Gallery