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255 Winter 2024

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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.

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Susie Byers

Susie previously worked on climate change for the Australian aid program and now works in the trade union movement. Susie tweets at @Susie_Byers.

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17 June 201522 July 2015 · Climate politics

Dispatch from the climate front line

Gabriel Kulwaum and Susie Byers

There are islands off the coast of Manus that are so low and flat they would struggle to stay viable even if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases right now. Local children talk about it at school and, when they are pondering what they will be when they grow up, they also wonder where they will live when their homes are claimed by the sea. Currently, the island’s population is 60,000 – and 40,000 residents live on the coast.