In 2025, first prize will be awarded to the best short story up to 3000 words by an Indigenous writer who is 35 years or younger at the closing date of the competition. A runner-up prize may also be awarded.

Liberation for Kashmiris, as with Palestinians, can only come through reclaiming the right to a political existence that encompasses the full spectrum of human response to oppression. This includes memory, grief, rage, and the refusal to perform docility.

What if the Sabsabi decisions are not, as most art world voices seem comfortable framing it, an overturning of fundamental values of artistic autonomy and rights, but are instead a marker of the continuing collapse of state-sponsored institutional liberal multicultural formations that promised “diversity and inclusion” under a naturalised ideology of Western capital?

Alice cut her wrists / & joined the Party / read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists / & Ten Days that Shook the World

Somebody please just do it

Books are essential because — and yes, it seems now I dare to say it — they give us hope. But, more precisely, they give us the energy to seek new and better ways to understand, or to recognise. To search beyond slogans for the concrete. For our recognition to be more profound, and our Act Three to be filled with more effective fighting.

To discuss season two of Disney’s Andor without discussing the genocide in Gaza would be both morally and intellectually disingenuous, and cowardly in a way that stains. Tony Gilroy knows this, despite his press-tour pussyfooting. Disney more than knows this, and I’m sure they’ve been rehearsing their response to the incoming discourse for months, if not since Gilroy first handed in the scripts.

The relevance of the Radical Jewish Tradition today — and it is an urgent one — is not that it offers a guide to campaigning against antisemitism (though revealing this history is its great achievement); rather, it is that it reminds us on the value of working-class struggle.

As leaders in and advocates for the prevention of gender-based violence, we strongly support the National Code as a crucial step to push universities to act. Without enforcement of the National Code to ensure providers comply with its requirements, we are concerned that universities are still not doing enough, and students are bearing the consequences.

We should mostly be talking about the genocide in Palestine: the horrifying toll of bodies, the thousands or tens of thousands of amputees, the bereavement at a national scale, the gutting intergenerational trauma. In the face of all this, we should not have to talk about universities in the West. But nowhere in society has the breakdown of liberal institutions under Zionist pressure been faster or more obvious.

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.

The new UA definition of antisemitism moves us closer to the possibility that scholarly work calling for the elimination of settler colonial states could be deemed antisemitic. This should be of concern to scholars working on the theory and praxis of anti-racism, anti-colonialism and decolonisation.

Overland, the judges and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are thrilled to announce the final results of the 2024 Judith Wright Poetry Prize.

Overland, the judges and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are thrilled to announce the final results of the 2024 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize.

It was supposed to be a quick trip to Richmond to pick up some uppers, some downers and something for the cat. I sat gawking at the passengers on the Hurstbridge line, sipping on a servo raspberry slushie, the white paper straw rattling against the rim of the cardboard cup as the train moved onwards.

The Nakba commemorates the massacres and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land in 1948, when 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their land by Zionist militia groups. Many fled to Gaza. Over the last 8 months in Gaza, over 200,000 people have been displaced. Many for the tenth time. The Nakba never ended. Today it is accelerating.