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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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Fiannuala Morgan

Fiannuala Morgan is a PhD candidate in literature at the Australian National University and a librarian and archivist based in Canberra. Her recent publications include Aboriginal Writers and Popular Fiction: The Literature of Anita Heiss and the edited collection Black Thursday and Other Lost Australian Bushfire Stories.

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Published in Overland Issue 250 Autumn 2023 · History

Reading ecological decline in nineteenth-century bushfire serials and reporting

Fiannuala Morgan

At least part of the rhetorical power of this work is owed to its drawing directly on the settler archive that presents early historical accounts of land as ‘verdant, open, pleasant and gentle’, as ‘gentleman’s parks’, thereby, demonstrating what pre-invasion land looked like under Indigenous custodianship, management, and care.