Published in Overland Issue 247 Winter 2022 · Uncategorized Editorial Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk In the time since our last edition, the Victorian Aboriginal community has lost two of its most prominent Elders, Uncle Archie Roach and Uncle Jack Charles. Both were survivors of a brutal regime of state-sanctioned removal and assimilation that continues to tear apart Aboriginal families today. Both will be sorely missed from the community in which Overland lives and works, and remembered forever for their compassion, resilience and leadership. In issue 239 of Overland, the Wiradjuri writer Vanamali Hermans described her own family’s brutal experience of the colonial attitudes that inform Australia’s medical services. In keeping with Overland’s ethos of productive solidarity, in this issue we’re proud to publish Caitlin Prince’s reflection on combating similar assumptions working in remote health care. Further investigating the problematics of colonial self-recognition to Australian film and literature, Gregory Marks uses the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright to think through the imbrication of settlement’s egalitarian tendencies with its darker impulses. Marg Hooper’s spatial essay ‘They Hunger Violently for It’ follows this thematic with an exploration of the ecological haunting effected by destructive mining practices. In ‘An Almanac of Lost Things’ Lachlan Summers delves into the fundamental uncanniness of ‘Climate Change’ through the writing of Jorge Luis Borges, and the nomenclature of disaster. Finally, Jack Kirne’s essay ‘A Change in the Air’ generatively stages the material politics of the shifting tropes of atmosphere. Bugalwan, solidarity,Evelyn Araluen & Jonathan Dunk Evelyn Araluen Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, researcher and co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. Her Stella-prize winning poetry collection DROPBEAR was published by UQP in 2021. She lectures in Literature and Creative Writing at Deakin University. More by Evelyn Araluen › Jonathan Dunk Jonathan Dunk is the co-editor of Overland, a widely published poet and scholar. He lives on Wurundjeri country. More by Jonathan Dunk › 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 18 December 202418 December 2024 · Nakata Brophy Prize Dawning in the rivulet of my father’s mourning Yasmin Smith My father floats words down Toonooba each morning. They arrive to me by noon. / Nothing diminishes in his unfolding, not even the currents in midwinter June. / He narrates the sky prehistorically like a cadence cutting him into deluge. 16 December 202416 December 2024 · Palestine Learning to see in the dark Alison Martin Images can represent a splice of reality from the other side of the world, mirror truths about ourselves and our collective humanity we can hardly bear to face. But we can also use them to recognise the patterns of dehumanisation that have manifested throughout history, and prevent their awful conclusions in the present. To rewrite in real time our most shameful histories before they are re-made on the world stage and in our social media feeds.
