Published in Overland Issue 205 Summer 2011 · Uncategorized Issue 205 Jeff Sparrow summer 2011 ISBN 978-0-9871301-2-9 published 2 December 2011 Mattias Gardell on the Oslo massacre, the politics of Indigenous languages, an extract from Alexis Wright’s forthcoming novel and much more. Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Alison Croggon Features Mattias Gardell − Terror in the Norwegian woods The rise of a anti-Muslim far Right in Europe Robert Bollard − Who was Bet B? Aboriginality and identity Xavier Rizos− Will the market save us? The logic of a carbon tax Brad Nguyen – Morality begone! Interpreting violence in the age of riots and revolution Stephanie Convery and Katrina Fox Sexing up animal rights: is it wrong? A discussion Rjurik Davidson – ‘You are sick! This is not art!’ Torture porn films and politics Sarah Drummond − Whale, daughter A slow death at sea Language and politics in Indigenous writing A PEN forum Arnold Zable John Bradley Kim Scott Marie Munkara Peter Slezak – Silence resembling stupidity The New Atheists and Islam Meanland: Caroline Hamilton – Sympathy for the devil? Small presses and free markets Debate Robert Lukins versus Ali Alizadeh That Australian Poetry should attempt to bring poetry into the mainstream Robert Lukins − Affirmative Ali Alizadeh − Negative Robert Lukins − Rebuttal Ali Alizadeh − Rebuttal Fiction Stephen Muecke − Experiment No. 1 in Animal Tourism Louise Pine − Letter to a small village Alexis Wright − extract from The Swan Book Poetry Cameron Lowe − Theatre Cath Drake − Fresh Kill Eileen Chong – Mary: A Fiction Angela Smith – Jennifer Maiden woke up in The Lodge Stuart Barnes – sad Molly Guy – Edith’s dead mother D J Huppatz – Bite the Wax Tadpole | Heide | One February or July Maketh Ajak – I need the finger of God inside my mind Phillip Hall – At Wentworth Falls Ruby Todd – the supplement Stuart Cooke – Elites Cover Yhonnie Scarce, What they wanted 2006–2010 courtesy the artist and Dianne Tanzer Gallery Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, broadcaster and Walkley award-winning journalist. He is a former columnist for Guardian Australia, a former Breakfaster at radio station 3RRR, and a past editor of Overland. His most recent book is a collaboration with Sam Wallman called Twelve Rules for Strife (Scribe). He works at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. More by Jeff Sparrow › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 10 April 202610 April 2026 · open letter Open letter: RMIT staff and students oppose disciplinary action against Gemma Seymour over video opposing links to weapons ties RMIT University Staff and Students Freedom of speech and expression is absolutely vital in academic institutions. Students who engage in activism should not be punished for doing so, and discipline procedures are not there to be abused as a tool of intimidation. We call for the disciplinary process against Gemma to cease immediately. 1 9 April 202610 April 2026 · CoPower Against the will to engineer: Richard King’s Brave New Wild Ben Brooker The response demanded of us in the twenty-first century must operate at the level of metaphysics as well as the material, addressing our underlying assumptions about the instrumentalisation of nature and what constitutes a meaningful life in the face of technology’s relentless advance. To neglect that deeper terrain is to concede, in advance, the very ground on which our resistance to the machine must stand.
