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255 Winter 2024

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This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’. Elsewhere, Juliet Scott interrogates ‘The Australian Media’s problem with Palestine’ and Sam Ryan looks back at Overland and the state of arts funding in Australia from 1973 to 1975. This issue also features poetry from Yeena Kirkbright, DJ Huppatz, Debbie Lim, among others, and short fiction from Lauren Collee, Madeline Byrne and Jordan Smith.

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Aunty Doris Paton

Dr Aunty Doris Paton is a Gunai Elder and educator. She is a senior lecturer at Monash University and has worked for many years on Gunaikurnai language revival and history.

Articles by Aunty Doris Paton:

6 October 20205 August 2021 · Aboriginal Australia

Telling the truth about Gippsland’s history

Aunty Doris Paton, Jessica Horton and Beth Marsden

In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests of June 2020, when Aboriginal activists rallied thousands in Australia’s capital cities to protest the lack of government action on Aboriginal deaths in custody and structural injustice, the Wellington Shire Council’s decision to cling to outdated narratives of settler colonial conquest displayed a profound lack of empathy and willingness to face the facts of the past and their legacies.