Published in Overland Issue 225 Summer 2016 · Uncategorized Issue 225 admin REGULARS Editorial Natalie Harkin giovanni tiso mel campbell alison croggon Contributors FEATURES jason wilson the new patriotism Trumpism beyond Trump vashti kenway no pasarán! Fighting Australia’s Far Right Claire Parfitt & Kirsty McCully the state of the working class Debt and precarity Jeanine Leane other peoples’ stories When is writing cultural appropriation? katie dobbs radical passivity Patty Hearst to Ottessa Moshfegh helen heath using/abusing fembots The ethics of sex with robots tom clark form versus content Misogyny versus Blue Ties liam byrne the antis On the conscription plebiscite fiction tony birch liam Alex philp agistment fiction prize Cameron Weston Sweeping First place, Story Wine Prize POETRY charlotte guest egg tempera networking drinks claire nashar story Marty Hiatt on the origin of Poetry a sapphic collaboration On the Occasion of Gig Ryan’s Sixtieth Birthday artwork sam wallman Guest artist issue 225: cover, illustrations pages 17, 25, 46–47 brent stegeman All other artwork FAir australia Winners of the 2016 NUW Fair Australia Prize 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 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.