Contents

Regulars

Jeff Sparrow – Editorial

Alison Croggon
Mel Campbell
Giovanni Tiso
Stephen Wright
Contributors

FEATURES

James Muldoon
Mourning democracy
A post-democratic era?

Anwyn Crawford
The biennale boycott
Why it was right to protest

Juliana Qian &
Elizabeth O’Shea
Should the Left check its privilege?
A debate

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Horrors of history
The politics of Wolf Creek 2

Maddee Clark
Against authenticity
CAL–Connections: Queer Indigenous identities

Jacinda Woodhead
Hard for the money
Writers and payment

Madeleine Hamilton
A process of survival
Life in a girls’ detention centre

Sean Scalmer
On the age of entitlement
The vocabulary of austerity

Nakata Brophy Prize For young Indigenous Writers
Judges’ report

FICTION

Jennifer Mills – Fancy cuts: an introduction

Josephine Rowe
A small cleared space

Tara Cartland
Nativity

Fikret Pajalic
Boonie

Clare Rhoden
Man/machine/dog

POETRY

Paul Giles
Sydney

Luke Best
Desire

Eddie Paterson
We will not pay

John Hawke
The point

Stu Hatton
departures/arrivals

Ann de Hugard
After the riot

Michelle Cahill
Castrato

Jenni Nixon
Borderlines

Jessica Hart
Land mountain