Overland 254 is the first in a set of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. This issue also launches a new design and format by Common Room Editions, inspired by Overland’s trove of radical literature spanning from 1954 to today. Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange consider the asymmetrical responses to two events: the wearing of keffiyehs by three cast members during the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, and, on the same day in the US, the shooting of three Palestinian men wearing keffiyehs. Jeff Sparrow uncovers the Sydney Herald’s legacy of Terra Nullius, and Daniel Lopez writes on Marx, Meredith and the festival as an inversion of modern life.
Chloe Ann-King is the founder of Raise the Bar Hospo Union which is a no-fees hospitality union offering free legal and employment support, educational workshops, and welfare advocacy. She has also extensively written about the impacts of low waged and insecure work and has worked as a columnist for the New Zealand Drug's Foundation's magazine Matters of Substance, where she focused much of her writing on disrupting the myths and stigmas around addiction and recovery.
