Issue - 205 summer 2011
Overland 205: Mattias Gardell on the Oslo massacre, an extract from Alexis Wright’s forthcoming novel and much more.
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Overland at the Perth Writers Festival: Reading in an Age of Change
The 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize is now closed.
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Today is the 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. I spent the morning reading about it and watching archival footage like that included below. It is Australia’s longest running continuous protest, one that has occupied Parliament lawn for four decades despite police intimidation, perpetual harassment and being legislated against. It began when four young Aboriginal men from Australia's Black Power movement pitched an umbrella in response to William McMahon's announcement that there would be ‘no Aboriginal title’ to Australian land. ... read more
Written by Jacinda Woodhead on 26-01-2012, 4 user comments
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