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.
Ruby Craven is an independent thinker, high school student in Melbourne, political commentator and ecofeminist. She volunteers her time in projects that support the marine environment with Sea Shepherd Australia and also assists with revegetating a section of the Darebin Creek. Ruby is an environmental committee member at her school and was awarded the William Moffat Scholarship for leadership and a Leonore Human Rights award. She was selected as a Yale Young Global Scholar in their environmental law stream and hopes to study law at university.
