Elias Greig on ecofascism and the settler invasion fantasy, Natalia Figueroa Barroso on Charrua language and colonisation, the winners of the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and Judith Wright Poetry Prize, new poetry and fiction from Angela Costi, Liam Ferney, Michael Farrell, Ouyang Yu, Tim Loveday 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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