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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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Bonnie Dukakis

Bonnie Dukakis is a proud Gunditjmara woman now living on Wurundjeri Country. She is a current Executive Member of the Koorie Youth Council and has worked in Justice for the past six years with the last two years in custody directly with young people.

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Published in Overland Issue Reflections on Ngaga-dji: Listening for Change · Indigenous rights

Experiences of youth detention and young people’s voices calling for informed change

Claire Loughnan, Bonnie Dukakis and Faith Gordon

These reflections on the Ngaga-dji Report come at a time when the decision to build a new youth justice centre in Cherry Creek, west of Melbourne, has been scaled down but remains an inappropriate model for responding to the needs of Aboriginal children, many of whom are often caught on the residential care-youth detention-adult prison pathway.