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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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Andrew Bartlett

Andrew Bartlett was a senator for Queensland and immigration spokesperson for the Australian Democrats for 1997-2008. He stood as a Greens candidate in the recent federal election and is currently a Research Fellow with the Migration Law Program at ANU. He has a weekly show on community radio 4ZZZ FM.

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Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Main Posts

A big Australia?

Mark Diesendorf and Andrew Bartlett

Long before population became a public issue, debate had been stirring behind the scenes. There had been internal arguments within the environmental movement, with tension between those who recognised population as one of the three drivers of environmental damage, and those who wished to avoid taking a public position against population growth for fear of alienating some of their members.