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 First published in Overland Issue 228 18 March 2024 · France Emmanuel Macron and the rearming of French demography Stephen Pascoe Demography, that supposedly neutral science of human statistics, is only ever one step away from politics. Especially so in France, where the national discourse over the past two months has summoned historical memory and hinted at political futures in disturbing admixture. First published in Overland Issue 228 8 March 20248 March 2024 · Poetry POETRY Gareth Morgan as if a poem were a person, me, i get up in the morning / i buy coffee in a can, and wait / you have to keep calm, “don't get upset” / or it fucks everything up. the bosses who tell me this / are wise but stupid troopers. this is a political poem