Published in Overland Issue 226 Autumn 2017 · Uncategorized Issue 226 admin REGULARS EDITORIAL 2 GIOVANNI TISO 11 ALISON CROGGON 26 MEL CAMPBELL 35 NATALIE HARKIN 51 CONTRIBUTORS 94 FEATURES AMY THOMAS 3 IT IS STILL THE BALANDA WAY The war on Indigenous languages CJ CHANCO 13 ‘LAW AND ORDER’ Populism in the Philippines ANGUS REOCH 20 ALL WORLDS DIE Against apocalyptic despair RAMON GLAZOV 40 THE QUEST FOR PRIMORDIAL WHITENESS On racial fantasies RORY DUFFICY 46 SYMPTOMS OF STASIS The politics of collapse ELIZABETH SUTHERLAND 53 TO BE A QUEER TEACHER Homophobia in the workplace ANDREW DEAN 60 LOST OBJECTS Nostalgia, Trump and Brexit SUBHASH JAIRETH 88 THROUGH THE EYES OF A HUMANIST Polyphonic literature FICTION ANDREI SELEZNEV 66 THE WAR IS A BIRD AFOPEFOLUWA OJO 69 A CONSEQUENCE OF THINGS HELEN DINMORE 75 SUPER FALLING STAR KATY WARNER 82 THE TRIP First place, Neilma Sidney Prize POETRY PRIZE JILL JONES & TOBY FITCH 28 JUDGES’ REPORT ALISON WHITTAKER 29 MANY GIRLS WHITE LINEN Equal first, Judith Wright Poetry HOLLY ISEMONGER 31 OK CUPID Equal first, Judith Wright Poetry LACHLAN BROWN 32 SELF-DIVISION Runner-up, Judith Wright Poetry POETRY OMAR SAKR SWITCH 37 A LUNAR BINGE 38 DAN HOGAN OLD GROWTH/HIGH DEFINITION 39 ARTWORK NICKY MINUS GUEST ARTIST ISSUE 226: COVER, ILLUSTRATIONS PAGES 66, 69, 75, 82 BRENT STEGEMAN ALL OTHER 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 May 20261 May 2026 · Long read Dungeons & Dragons is a waste of time: an unproductive case for radical action Scott Hudson Another such casualty is the push of AI into the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Used in this way, AI purports to hack your recreational time, allowing you to maximise it by smoothing over the nitty gritty. But the thing is, the joy of D&D is the nitty gritty. AI promises to improve the productivity of work and leisure, but much of D&D thrives on being unproductive. 30 April 2026 · Housing Organised abandonment and Victoria’s Big Housing Build Oli Caruana-Brown and Ella McNicol The crisis is not due to a physical shortage of properties. Rather, it is a series of intentional decisions by Governments to prioritise a system of private property over peoples’ basic human need for shelter, allowing landlords and corporations to continue to hoard housing and extract wealth from tenants via rent.
