Overland literary journal

Witnessing, reading through this absorbing, elegant, careful example of the art, is always a kind of mourning, and Conrad, an author for whom writing was “the conversion of nervous force into phrases,” is the perfect figure to focus Edmond’s ongoing work of mourning.

In Palestine, children are detained as a means of maintaining the occupation and suppressing resistance. In Australia, youth incarceration extends the legacy of forced removals and perpetuates intergenerational trauma among Indigenous communities. Children are targeted precisely because they represent the continuity and survival of their communities. This intentional disruption is not simply a matter of misguided policy but part of a broader effort to undermine Indigenous and Palestinian resilience.

Since 2016, Trump has successfully remade the GOP in his own image, and, by so doing, pushed the centre of American politics further to the right, even to the extent of achieving the repeal of Roe v Wade (a long-held conservative dream). The current election illustrates that success.

We found them after this year’s snowmelt. The dark, formless things. Looking like they’d been dredged up from some abyss. Had they fallen from the sky with the snow? Emerged from the crevices below? Had the ice metamorphosed, angry as we trampled it?

A Difficult Year misses the solution evident in its own story. Were it to look more closely, the film might challenge the weak political clichés it skewers with powerful truths: that those worried about the climate and their money have more in common than what divides them; that only a movement focused on ending both environmental and economic exploitation can defeat a politics with no interest in stopping either.

we have a horse in our shed dad look dad me and gabe are feeding him grass he likes grass he eats grass and chaff dad gabe said his name is phar lap dad come on phar lap! i got some grass for yooooou!

There's an old idea, that as long the United States dominates the whole world, maybe every person on Earth should get a vote in their elections.

We support the right for students to protest. We share their concerns about the University of Melbourne’s complicity in Israel’s human rights violations, and the need to uphold international law. We support the demand to end academic and financial ties with Israeli universities, and implore the University of Melbourne to uphold its internal commitments and international obligations.

On October 22nd, we will mark the 100th day of our refugee encampment — a powerful movement that has been entirely self-organised by refugees in Melbourne. We invite everyone to join us on October 22nd at 5:30 p.m. for a closing rally. We will bring together all the groups that have supported our campaign. There will be food, a march into the city, and other activities as we celebrate 100 days of courageous resistance.

Sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, established in 2014 and now in its ninth year, recognises the talent of young Indigenous writers across Australia. First prize includes $5000, an optional writing residency at Trinity College, and publication of the successful piece in […]

A Palestinian is not odd at a Free Palestine action, I'm the assumed subject of these political activities. Most members of the public opposed to the state's alliance with the Zionist regime are not Palestinian, yet they have shown up for Palestine in the longest protests in modern history. They show up because they care. They care about the state of the world. They care about the state of this nation.

We the undersigned, academics and professional staff at Australian Universities, seek your immediate assurance that Western Sydney University will stop enabling police presence on its campuses for the purpose of suppressing and deterring student protests.

The absence of a visible campaign against mass unemployment has had a profound impact on Australian politics. Union and left-wing engagement with unemployment has become an increasingly top-down largely technocratic affair devoid of grassroots participation. As a result, unemployment policy is increasingly understood as something that happens to workers.