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.
Jessica McLean's doctorate looked at water matters with a focus on the Ord catchment in northern Australia, working with Indigenous people in that region, and has published journal articles from this research. She is currently a Human Geography Lecturer at Macquarie University where she teaches a course aiming to rethink resource management to centre often marginalised positions in decision making processes and outcomes. Twitter: @jess_emma_mc.
