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256 Spring 2024

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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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Alan Zheng

Alan Zheng is a Sydney-based writer with experience in print journalism. His writing has been featured in Justinian and the Gazette of Law and Journalism. He also edited the University of Sydney student newspaper, Honi Soit.

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21 November 201919 December 2019 · Journalism

Concerns notices and courtroom skirmishes: how defamation threats are suppressing student media

Alan Zheng

But I have also witnessed student media falter against an all-too-familiar threat. Hard-hitting stories have ended their lives as unpublished drafts, shelved after being spiked or strongarmed. In the background, the defamation law system continues to whir, pitting the resource-poor institutions of student journalism against the legal machinery of the privileged. As a result, important stories are silenced.