 "Arena" (quarterly) was concluded at issue 99/100 in 1992 and two new publications launched – the popular political and cultural commentary publication "Arena Magazine" (6 times per year) and the twice-yearly theoretical, academically refereed publication, "Arena Journal".Drawing on a wide variety of writers, and acting as a more pluralist space for debates within critical streams of Australian thought and politics, "Arena's" editors took part in most of the key debates in Australian political and cultural life over the last fifteen years.These found their most directly engaged expression in the Magazine; they included an extended consideration of the relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia, and the challenges faced by traditional Indigenous communities within a modern framework; the importation and development of the 'culture wars' and the rise of right-wing populism as a response to the 'ungrounding' of social life under globalisation; the contradictions arising from the spread of post-human and post-natural technologies, from birth technologies to medication to GM foods; the rise of 'military humanitarianism' in the NATO Balkans interventions in the 1990s and its continuation and expansion in Iraq; and in the 'mandatory detention' regime imposed on refugees in the 2000s.