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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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BJ Cruse

BJ Cruse is a monaroo Elder and the current chairperson of the Eden Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC), a position he has held for 35 years. BJ has been active in Indigenous politics since 1966, when he joined the Wallaga Lake Political Youth Group as the group's treasurer.

Articles by BJ Cruse:

14 April 202113 May 2021 · Aboriginal Australia

Theft of Aboriginal land under the Eden Regional Forest Agreement

BJ Cruse

All Australians were robbed when the Australian Government breached the New South Wales Eden Regional Forest Agreement in 1999 and when they breached it for the second time under the Eden multi-purpose wharf compensation negotiations of the early 2000.