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Words collected from ‘It’s so hip to be black’ by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun, 15 April 2009.

Meet now
Wiradjuri
Country.
Auburn
and charmingly freckled
Country.
Fair
open
air and
Swallow
Country.
Take-me-as-I-am
naked
Country.
Law
Country.
Creator sprit
Country.
Chosen
Country.
Colour
awakening
fullblood
Country.
Hailed
and
harping
proud to be
Country.
Heartfelt
firebrand
beyond black and white
Country.
Ancestors
deepest
old
Country.
Mother
Father
Great-Grandfather
Country.
Australia.

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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.