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.
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.
