Issue 198
Contents
Regulars
Jeff Sparrow − Editorial
Correspondence
Essays
Mungo MacCallum − Rudd and the boat people
Meanland: Margaret Simons − Reading in an age of change
Towards 200: Raewyn Connell − Bread and waratahs
Lizzie O’Shea − Letters from death row
CAL—Art and life: Simon Sellars − Hiding in plain sight *
Brian Walters − Justice on trial
Kevin Foster − Embedding control
Michael Brull − But what about Zionism?
Fiction
Miriam Sved − Best and fairest
Phillip Tang − Bits
Tim Richards − Dog’s life
Reviews
Kerry Leves − The Children of Leonidas
James Ley − A healthy diversity
Vane Lindesay − Comic Commentators (web only)
Poetry
Duncan Hose − settler’s mess
Michael Farrell − wide open road
Anna Ryan-Punch − Differential Threshold
Ryan Scott − Disquisition on Home
Stuart Cooke − Your Sea
Kevin Gillam − instructions mislaid
Kate White − RE: Total inexactitude
Matthew Hall − Set
Maysoon Elnigoumi − A souqi
Rebecca Giggs − The Easement
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