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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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Ali Sipahi

Ali Sipahi is a writer and Youth Worker from Melbourne. Her work has been featured in Cordite, Voiceworks and Seizure. She currently supports disadvantaged young people through community-based mentoring programs.

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14 July 201513 November 2018 · Main Posts

Undisclosed law

Ali Sipahi

The most interesting and far-reaching of these new laws is the failure to disclose offence. This law came into effect on the 27 October 2014 and states that all adults in Victoria must report any ‘reasonable belief’ that a sex offence has been committed by an adult towards a child under the age of sixteen years. Failure to disclose is a criminal offence, punishable by up to three years imprisonment.