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.
Holly Doel-Mackaway is a Senior Lecturer at the Macquarie Law School. Her research focuses on children and the law and interrogates the legal relationship between children and the State under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Before becoming an academic Holly worked as a children’s rights lawyer in the international development sector with a range of organisations including UNICEF, Save the Children, Plan International and Childfund.
