Published in Overland Issue 208 Spring 2012 · Uncategorized Issue 208 Jeff Sparrow Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Judy Horacek Alison Croggon Rjurik Davidson Features Jonathan Green The end of a world An elegy for the newspaper Alex Mitchell Fatal obsessions Murdoch’s early years Anwyn Crawford Fat, privilege and resistance A response to Jennifer Lee Matt Cornell Outsider porn Adult goes indie Juliana Qian The name and the face CAL-Connections: On not speaking Chinese Malcolm Harris Twitterland Meanland: The radical terrain of social media Rebecca Giggs Imagining women Feminism and nonfiction Michael Green The cooperation A collective response to unemployment Fiction Jennifer Mills − Architecture Davide Angelo − Double tap Jannali Jones − Blancamorphosis Stephanie Convery − Big river Poetry Todd Turner − Clockwork Lawrence Upton − Human Tissue Cassandra Atherton − Bonds Campbell Thomson − Australia is a film about a red dog Tim Thorne – Honesty Paula Green – Picking Grapes Adam Aitken – Old Europe (2) Shari Kocher – Bellbird Gully Michelle Gaddes – The Tap Julie Maclean – without a city wall Graphics Bruce Mutard Paper planes Sam Wallman cover 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 1 6 November 2026 · Friday Fiction Headland Harry Goddard He must have still been sore. I could tell from the winces he made as he scooted down the trail. Some unspoken agreement of not hitting other people’s children — and the circumstances of me not being that type of kid — spared me from the same punishment. I was taken to my parents who agreed I would have to work off the damages, and I must have mowed the lawn once, or cleaned the family car. 4 November 2026 · Film MIFF, Minotaur and the politics of maternal reception Alicia Byrnes Maternal labour is, in the terms I’ve set out here, not labour at all. Noisy, unfocused, mobile, perhaps even sleepy — it is an affront to arthouse film viewing and therefore unserious.
