Published in Overland Issue 215 Winter 2014 · Uncategorized Issue 215 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Giovanni Tiso Stephen Wright Contributors FEATURES James Muldoon Mourning democracy A post-democratic era? Anwyn Crawford The biennale boycott Why it was right to protest Juliana Qian & Elizabeth O’Shea Should the Left check its privilege? A debate Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Horrors of history The politics of Wolf Creek 2 Maddee Clark Against authenticity CAL–Connections: Queer Indigenous identities Jacinda Woodhead Hard for the money Writers and payment Madeleine Hamilton A process of survival Life in a girls’ detention centre Sean Scalmer On the age of entitlement The vocabulary of austerity Nakata Brophy Prize For young Indigenous Writers Judges’ report FICTION Jennifer Mills – Fancy cuts: an introduction Josephine Rowe A small cleared space Tara Cartland Nativity Fikret Pajalic Boonie Clare Rhoden Man/machine/dog POETRY Paul Giles Sydney Luke Best Desire Eddie Paterson We will not pay John Hawke The point Stu Hatton departures/arrivals Ann de Hugard After the riot Michelle Cahill Castrato Jenni Nixon Borderlines Jessica Hart Land mountain 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 May 20261 May 2026 · Long read Dungeons & Dragons is a waste of time: an unproductive case for radical action Scott Hudson Another such casualty is the push of AI into the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Used in this way, AI purports to hack your recreational time, allowing you to maximise it by smoothing over the nitty gritty. But the thing is, the joy of D&D is the nitty gritty. AI promises to improve the productivity of work and leisure, but much of D&D thrives on being unproductive. 30 April 2026 · Housing Organised abandonment and Victoria’s Big Housing Build Oli Caruana-Brown and Ella McNicol The crisis is not due to a physical shortage of properties. Rather, it is a series of intentional decisions by Governments to prioritise a system of private property over peoples’ basic human need for shelter, allowing landlords and corporations to continue to hoard housing and extract wealth from tenants via rent.
