REGULARS
Editorial – Jacinda Woodhead
Natalie Harkin
Alison Croggon
Mel Campbell
Correspondence
Contributors

FEATURES
Tim Robertson
Inside the sweatshop of the world
Labouring in China
Ben Eltham
Out of touch
Politicians and their salaries
Rachel Hennessy
Engaged and enraged
Why writers write

Alice Grundy
For what it’s worth
Books: do they cost too much?

Giovanni Tiso
You can’t have your revolution
Who owns the internet?
Richard Seymour
Jeremy and the jeremiads
Dissecting Corbynphobia
Gerhard Hoffstaedter
The limits of compassion
Speaking with refugees in Malaysia
Alex Griffin
Just violations
Using and abusing Manus Island fiction
Jennifer Mills, Alison Whan, Jacinda Woodhead
2016 VU Short Story Prize report
julia tulloh harper
First place: Broad hatchet
AS
Runner-up: The acorn of sadness

Ben Walter
Runner-up: All hollows

POETRY
Zoë Barnard
ImpulsE
Stranger, Grandfather 82

John Kinsella
The Tenets or Tenants of Sweeney

A J Carruthers
Axis 49: CARD 84

Michael Farrell
Solve a problem and it grows two heads
Holiday pattern

Catherine Vidler
Chaingrass
Untitled

liam ferney
Greenslopes in March

Caitlin Maling
Gods of my youth

artwork
JACOB ROLFE
Guest artist issue 224: cover,
illustrations pages 28, 34, 40
brent stegeman
All other artwork