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.
Faith Gordon is a Senior Lecturer at the ANU College of Law, Director of the International Youth Justice Network and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. Faith is originally from Northern Ireland and at the time of writing she lives on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. She researches and publishes in the areas of children's rights, youth justice, victims, social justice and digital technologies.
