164: NEW WORLD BORDERS
ISBN 0 9759554 0 5
SPRING 2001

AMANDA LOHREY gives a provocative and insightful lecture, ‘The project of self under late capitalism’; discussing the common preoccupation with self-improvement in in a context in which large-scale social social change is hard to imagine.This issue also examines many of the questions to come out of the Governement’s treatment of people who come to Australia “illegally”, and gives first-hand accounts from inside detention centres. Political economist, unionist and activist STUART ROSEWARNE investigates people movements; ANNA SZORENYI gives a snapshot of the abuse and violence revealed in her recent investigations of the treatment of refugees in Australia; NIGEL HOFFMANN writes about his time as officer at the Woomera Detention Centre. This issue also contains a focus on KATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD and a tribute to RIC THROSSELL, as well as more debate on working class poetry.