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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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Sam Ryan

Sam Ryan is completing a thesis on Overland and Quadrant at the University of Tasmania. He has written for Australian Book Review, the Australian Journal of Biography and History, The Conversation, and Cordite. He is also Overland’s digital archivist and was Australian Book Review’s Rising Star for 2024.

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16 April 202516 April 2025 · Obituary

Keith Windschuttle’s rotten legacy

Much can and should be written about Windschuttle’s rotten legacy, which exceeds the bounds of his attacks on Aboriginal Australia. Instead of the comprehensive intellectual thrashing he deserves, this antibiturary is a modest commemoration of the passing of one of our worst thinkers.

Published in Overland Issue 255 Winter 2024 · arts funding

“Arts funding is fucked”: Overland 1973 — 1975

. In writing about these historical debates, I do not intend to engage in any specificity around the contemporary funding of the arts with any utterance other than the most simple and correct: it’s fucked and will continue to be fucked.