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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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Katherine Ellinghaus

Katherine Ellinghaus is a Monash Fellow in the School of Historical, Philosophical and International Studies at Monash University. She writes and researches in the areas of colonial history, transnational and comparative history, cross cultural relationships and the social and cultural history of the United States and Australia.

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5 August 201621 September 2016 · History

The racialised amnesia of #CensusFail

Jordy Silverstein and Katherine Ellinghaus

But the tracking of lives through government documentation, in particular Aboriginal lives and the lives of other racialised people, has a long history. Despite Keane’s alarm, this kind of surveillance is not a novel breach of privacy. Certain lives and populations have been subject to tracking and surveillance since the beginnings of colonisation in this country; such scrutiny has been a key tactic of various Australian governments.