Published in Overland Issue 224 Spring 2016 · Uncategorized Issue 224 Editorial team 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 Editorial team More by Editorial team › 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 10 April 202610 April 2026 · open letter Open letter: RMIT staff and students oppose disciplinary action against Gemma Seymour over video opposing links to weapons ties RMIT University Staff and Students Freedom of speech and expression is absolutely vital in academic institutions. Students who engage in activism should not be punished for doing so, and discipline procedures are not there to be abused as a tool of intimidation. We call for the disciplinary process against Gemma to cease immediately. 9 April 202610 April 2026 · CoPower Against the will to engineer: Richard King’s Brave New Wild Ben Brooker The response demanded of us in the twenty-first century must operate at the level of metaphysics as well as the material, addressing our underlying assumptions about the instrumentalisation of nature and what constitutes a meaningful life in the face of technology’s relentless advance. To neglect that deeper terrain is to concede, in advance, the very ground on which our resistance to the machine must stand.
