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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Raewyn Connell

Raewyn Connell is the author of the prize-winning Southern Theory; co-author, some time back, of Class Structure in Australian History; and author, even further back, of Socialism and Labor: An Australian Strategy.

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Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 198 Autumn 2010 · Main Posts

Bread and waratahs

Raewyn Connell

When Overland began, the Left in Australia was fairly easy to define. It consisted of a large, blokey faction in the Labor Party and the unions, plus a fast-shrinking Communist Party, plus a small crowd of intellectuals and peace marchers orbiting those organisations.