TABLE OF
CONTENTS - Issue 3 SPINACH7
SHORTS
YEAH, RIGHT… SINGA’S PICKS, PROFILES, SPIRITUAL
SOUP, ARTIST RUN and ASIA PACIFIC BRIEFS
FEATURES
BEYOND ‘REALPOLITIK’
North Korea is ruled by a struggling dictatorship, whose
people are starving, and whose time is running out.
RICHARD TANTER takes a diplomatic look at world diplomacy,
and examines the options in dealing with the famously
‘rogue’ state.
PLANTS, PILLS AND PATENTS
MARNI CORDELL looks at the medical industry’s
new found interest in natural therapies.
ISSUES
HIGH NOON FOR OIL AND GAS, TWILIGHT FOR SUBURBIA?
ADAM FENDERSON talks to Julian Darley about thermodynamics,
energy use and the future of suburbia.
THINK AGAIN
MARCUS WESTBURY provides a crash course in think tank
politics, contradiction and high-level hypocrisy.
OPINION
REGIONAL REGIME CHANGE?
MARYANN KEADY tackles recent allegations of bribery
against East Timorese prime minister Mari Alkatiri.
REGIONAL COMMENTARY
PREACHER HOWARD AT THE PULPIT
DR ROBERT WOLFGRAMM on the West’s ‘second
coming’ in the Pacific.
MEDIA
NO STAR WHERE
Last year’s decision by SBS Television to broadcast
State-run Vietnamese news program, ‘Thoi Su’,
was met with outrage by many Vietnamese Australians.
SCOTT BROOK takes a personal detour through a complex
debate.
SOCIETY
EXCAVATING EBENEZER
An archeologist and an Aboriginal community work to
unearth a shared history. They tell their stories to
EVE VINCENT.
THE ART OF DARKNESS
JACK STROCCHI remembers the ‘brutality and tenderness’
of Mark Worth: filmmaker, war-journalist, artist and
damn good mate.
GUERILLA KNITTING
From Japan, MARK PENDELTON describes the week the loops
were looped on the Yamanote loop line train.
PHOTOGRAPHY
FUN
Photographer LOUIS PORTER takes a fly-on-the-wall look
at ‘fun’.
VIEWS & COMMENTARY
DIGITAL MEDIA, MUSIC, FILM, BOOKS
TRAVEL
THE AXES OF EVIL
Metallica is currently enjoying a revival in the Islamic
Republic of Iran. Go figure. DAVID REILLY on life in
underground Tehran.
FICTION
LADY MACBETH IN BENTLEIGH
SIMMONE HOWELL
THE LAST WORD
JOHN MARTINKUS on the future of Iraq.
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