Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.
OVERLAND 188 spring 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-5-2published 20 September 2007
Budget Brrrs (For T.G.)
The privileged continue to receive more and more (again and again) via such liberal budget-brackets, while the many are expected to work even harder for less. Although thought may care to examine the merit of ‘Nothing is right or wrong, but thinking makes it so,’ as William wants us to know, he could not share this sentiment with the workers of our continent, who will have to accommo- date the renamed ‘Work-Choices’ as a mate, instead of being able to pur- chase a modest house to live in, with time on weekends for family and friends, since the choices in question are those between long hours, scant holiday pay, lower wages or no job at all; so the privileged can continue to extract their toll from the many, without whom they could not claim any margins.
© Joyce Parkes Overland 188 – spring 2007, p. 77
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