Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 200 Spring 2010 · Main Posts Issue 200 Jeff Sparrow Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Correspondence CAL—Art and Life: Bruce Mutard − Nine o’clock finish * Meanland: Jenny Lee − Publishers at the floodgates Essays Chris Graham − Telling whites what they want to hear Michelle Carmody − Beauty without borders Anwyn Crawford − Permanent daylight Jacinda Woodhead − Hip-hop in the Wild West Marion Rankine − Sometimes it takes a writer Alison Croggon − How Australian is it? Clive Hamilton − Appeasing climate denial at the ABC Ben Eltham − Culture is bigger than the arts Boris Kelly − Killing the worm in ourselves Jenny Lee − Meanland essay: Publishers at the floodgates Rjurik Davidson − Liberated zone or pure commodification? Fiction Christos Tsiolkas − Rococo Karen Hitchcock − Forging friendship Janette Turner Hospital − Weird people Poetry Derek Motion − introduction Adam Ford, Zenobia Frost, Rebecca Giggs, Susan Hampton, Stu Hatton, Kelly-lee Hickey, Hal Judge, Dan Lee, Carly-Jay Metcalf, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Derek Motion, Ella O’Keefe, David Prater, Jaya Savige, Bel Schenk, Andrew Slattery, Amelia Walker, Louise Waller, Benny Walter, Fiona Wright − Before elapsing Review Simone Hughes – The City’s Outback (online only) Cover Sally Orpin and Robert Brailsford Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, broadcaster and Walkley award-winning journalist. He is a former columnist for Guardian Australia, a former Breakfaster at radio station 3RRR, and a past editor of Overland. His most recent book is a collaboration with Sam Wallman called Twelve Rules for Strife (Scribe). He works at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. More by Jeff Sparrow › 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 20 March 20262 April 2026 · Main Posts Final results of the 2025 Judith Wright Poetry Prize Editorial team Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize seeks outstanding poetry from new and emerging writers. This year’s judges, Shastra Deo, Harry Reid and […] 20 March 202620 March 2026 · Main Posts Final results of the 2025 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize Editorial team Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize seeks outstanding original short fiction of up to 3000 words themed loosely around the notion […]
