Published in Overland Issue 220 Spring 2015 · Uncategorized Issue 220 Editorial team REGULARS Editorial Giovanni Tiso Mel Campbell Alison Croggon Contributors FEATURES Luke Stegemann Trouble on the hour, every hour The tensions in Europe’s borderlands Anonymous Statement of vindication Tracing misogynist-driven violence Jason Wilson A presence that disturbs Climate change: natural and inevitable Jennifer Mills Detroit, I do mind In capitalism’s graveyard Ken MacLeod Hard to be a god Hard to be a science fiction writer Anwen Crawford No place like home The fight for the waterfront David Lockwood A person of very little interest Things ASIO got wrong Fair Australia Prize Winners of the inaugural NUW Fair Australia Prize FICTION Zahid Gamieldien Pyrene Omar Musa No breaks POETRY john tranter The linden tree Young folly ellen van neerven Invisible spears kate lilley Austerity georgina woods Paradise losing michael farrell The bush and the internet are interchangeable sam langer A sky open and shut fiona wright Autumn poem frances olive Arcady corey wakeling Agora, Arcadia ARTWORK TAI SNAITH 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 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.