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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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Ben Hillier

Ben Hillier is a member of the Tamil Refugee Council media team and an editor of Red Flag. He is the author of Losing Santhia: life and loss in the struggle for Tamil Eelam.

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10 September 201918 October 2019 · Borders

Why this Tamil family from Queensland is at risk

Ben Hillier

Everyone involved in this case on the family’s side desperately hopes to see a legal victory. And right now, that’s probably the only hope. But the lawyers can’t save everyone.