Published in Overland Issue 212 Spring 2013 · Uncategorized Issue 212 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Correspondence Stephen Wright Judy Horacek Rjurik Davidson Features Nic Maclellan What has Australia done to Nauru? The real price of offshore detention Alison Croggon Why art? How to defend arts funding Tad Tietze A change in the order of things? The shifting fortunes of the Australian Greens El Gibbs Equal but different CAL–Connections: A critique of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Paddy Gibson Stolen futures The return of Indigenous child removal Peter Polites and Stephanie Convery Speaking for the Other? A debate about authorship and identity David Renton Politics that breaks down people’s fear The story of the Anti-Nazi League Rebecca Starford Healthy relations Exercise and writing Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke Harlem Jones Kay Harrison Red cork platform heels Lucy Treloar Natural selection Poetry Louise Crisp Podocarpus berries Liam Ferney one of us has chosen to come to the sea Robert Verdon This Joel Scott Fête accompli Graphics Sam Wallman Editorial team More by Editorial team › 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 June 2026 · Culture We were all workers on GeoCities Maria Dudko GeoCities remains an important reminder that collective labour on the internet is not new — and that recognising ourselves as workers is the first step towards organising as such. 4 29 May 202629 May 2026 · Politics Zionism in real-time: insights from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Nick Riemer While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of antisemitism in Australia at the present moment, it is perverse that the Commission has refused to hear from the Palestine solidarity movement.