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 23 April 202623 April 2026 · The media The importance of democratic frequencies: on the threatened closure of 2SER Daz Chandler 2SER operates not just as a broadcaster, but as an incubator of democratic culture, its alumni carrying forward practices shaped by collaboration, dissent and accountability to community. 21 April 202621 April 2026 · Reviews Pilled to the gills: Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson’s Conspiracy Nation Cher Tan The question that Conspiracy Nation implicitly raises isn’t why people believe in conspiracy theories but rather why people have stopped trusting official narratives. But what do we do with this knowledge? When we call something a conspiracy theory, what work are we doing? Who benefits from that designation?
