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.
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.
