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256 Spring 2024

Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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A lively debate followed by launch of Overland 225

Editorial team

Debate: ‘Does a “common future” mean overhauling our political system?’

6pm, Friday 9 December
The Toff in Town
252 Swanston St, Melbourne

To launch Overland’s final edition of 2016, which also contains the winners of this year’s Fair Australia Prize, Overland and the NUW are hosting a lively debate on participatory democracies and the future.

Six excellent speakers are lined up to thrash it out on the night.

Arguing for the overhaul: national secretary of the NUW, Tim Kennedy, former editor of The Big Issue, Melissa Cranenburgh, and co-founder of the Safe Schools Coalition Victoria, Roz Ward.

And fighting the tide will be former assistant secretary of the ACTU, Tim Lyons, Junkee Politics Editor, Osman Faruqi, and New Matilda‘s national affairs correspondent, Ben Eltham.

You don’t want to miss this.

Free food. Free drinks. Free event. And copies of Overland 225 available on the night.