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In 1954, Overland was founded from a broad progressive movement of political organisations, trade unions, writers and activists. They shared a commitment to Australian writing, and to publishing and fostering diverse, often marginalised, voices.

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    <h1>Keep Overland Independent</h1>
    <p class="tagline">Since 1954, Overland has published progressive writing and diverse voices excluded from traditional media. Now we need you.</p>
    <span class="tax-badge">All donations over $2 are tax deductible</span>
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    <p><strong>Overland is free to everyone.</strong> We believe open access to culture and politics shouldn't depend on your ability to pay. But this means we rely on readers like you.</p>
    <p>With literary arts under constant threat and government funding unreliable, your donation goes directly to paying writers, editors, and keeping our work independent.</p>
    <p><strong>Small size, substantial impact.</strong> We publish perspectives that challenge the status quo and point public debate in alternative directions.</p>
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Thank you for considering leaving a gift in your will to Overland. Your generosity helps sustain our mission to champion progressive voices and literature, securing it for future generations. […]

259: Feb/Mar 2026

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In this highly anticipated new issue, we encounter brilliant examples of what writing can do in a hypernormal time – whether that's Benjamin Gready on the absurdity of fieldwork on land under active occupation or Zahid Gamieldien's short story about a dancing rat who finds itself enmeshed in systems too shadowy to be true. But, as with the emotional cycles of resistance, hope and snark are features too. Dan Hogan considers the lawn as a class obsession, and π.ο. asks a question: why people hate poetry? We also read about a rakhasa family who passes on wisdom to their young kin, a story by Shefali Mathew. And you’ll find new poetry by Eli McLean, Fiona Hile and Sol Chan, among others, as well as a comic by Safdar Ahmed, plus heaps more. Co-editors Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk write in the editorial, "Writing always matters, but it matters most directly in the face of this kind of thuggish assault on language, our first and last commons. We can’t let the bastards have it.”

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