FORUM

Suvendrini Perera
The Good Neighbour: Conspicuous Compassion
and the Politics of Proximity

Anthony J. Langlois
Ambivalence About Human Rights

Tseen Khoo
The Contagion Within

Goldie Osuri
Ordinary Australian Orientalisms

Paul James
Confronting Borderlands of Identity

Joseph A. Camilleri
The Howard Years: Cultural Ambivalence and Political Dogma

Ouyang Yu
Far and Near

Wang Guanglin
The Twain Must Meet This Time

Balthasar Kehi
Australia's Relations With East Timor

Prem Kumar Rajaram
Being Ambivalent

JV D'Cruz and William Steele
Doing Cultural Pluralism in Australia, Against the Tide

EDITORIAL

Greg McCarthy
Debating the National Museum of Australia

ESSAYS

Kylie Message and Chris Healy
A Symptomatic Museum: The New, the NMA and the Culture Wars

S. G. Foster
Yesterday and Tomorrow at the National Museum of Australia

Greg McCarthy
Postmodern Discontent and the National Museum of Australia

REVIEWS

Priya Dixit
Thinking Difference, Internationally
(Naeem Inayatullah and David L. Blaney, International Relations
and the Problem of Difference, NY: Routledge, 2004)

Priya Chacko
Postcolonial Globalities
(Himadeep Muppidi, The Politics of the Global, Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2004)