Published in Overland Issue 222 Autumn 2016 · Uncategorized Issue 222 admin REGULARS Editorial – Jacinda Woodhead Vane Lindesay On John McLaren Mel Campbell Natalie Harkin Giovanni Tiso Alison Croggon FEATURES Ben Brooker Production lines of flesh and bone Meat-eating and the left Stephanie Convery Get your hands off my sister Rape and feminist justice Antony Loewenstein After independence South Sudan five years on Maxine Beneba Clarke The current inhabitants of the island A memoir AJ CarrutHErs, lia inCoGnita, saMuEl waGan watson, ElEna GoMEz Four perspectives on race and racism in Australian poetry A discussion Dean Brandum and Andrew Nette Police fictions On the history of crime television FICTION aliCE punG, EllEn van nEErvEn, stEpHaniE ConvEry Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize report laurEn FolEy First place: K-k-k ElizabEtH tan Coca-Cola birds sing sweetest in the morning As In the end, in the head Jo lanGdon What do you tell JaCk latiMorE Where waters meet POETRY Peter MintEr and toby FitCH 2015 Judith Wright Poetry Prize report Ella o’kEEFE First place: alkaway Omar Sakr Second place: Not so wild Jakob ziGuras Third place: Jet lag song nets ART wORk MiCHEllE Farran Brent stEGEMan admin More by admin › 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 17 April 2026 · Friday Fiction These old hands, they are still growing Sam Fisher It was an old house meshed in an unrelenting grid of brick and weatherboard. Its walls still stood stark, red brick. Paint like tender old sagging skin on the timber windows. A bastard of a garden surrounded it, ran up brick wall and concrete path. The lawn, dead that time of year, luminescent in the streetlight. In the center of that void, a sign, Auction. 15 April 202615 April 2026 · Climate politics The $67 billion climate betrayal: how Australia’s record fossil fuel subsidies fund global destruction Noa Wynn The contradictions aren't failures of implementation. They're the predictable result of a political system that has decided fossil fuel profits matter more than climate stability, more than the Great Barrier Reef, more than Pacific Islander lives, and more than the future habitability of the planet.
