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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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Zoë Laidlaw

Zoë Laidlaw is professor of history at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Colonial Connections (Manchester UP, 2005) and Protecting the Empire’s Humanity (Cambridge UP, 2021).

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Published in Overland Issue Reflections on Ngaga-dji: Listening for Change · Justice

Feature | Beyond survival: Indigenous history and the politics of justice

Julia Hurst and Zoë Laidlaw

History pushes us around. It bullies. It tells us, again and again, that ‘not everyone’s destiny matters’. But identity is rooted in history, and so history cannot be escaped. Aboriginal Victorians continue to speak back: oral histories, art practices, storytelling, biography and autobiography announce ‘we have survived’.