Published in Overland Issue · Uncategorized Short Documentary Film Festival Tony Messenger Lead image: Frank Hurley photographing under the bows of the ‘Endurance’, 1915 / State Library of New South Wales Read the rest of False Documents If you enjoyed this special edition, subscribe and receive a year’s worth of print issues, the online magazine, special editions and discounted entry to our literary competitions Tony Messenger Tony Messenger is a writer, critic and interviewer who has had works published in Southerly journal and Mascara Literary Review. He blogs about translated fiction and interviews Australian poets at Messenger’s Booker. More by Tony Messenger › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 18 July 2025 · Friday Fiction Inner ants Caitlin Mahony The shower tap squeaks as Ray finally turns it off. I sit, cross armed on the couch. Pippa is sprawled across the floorboards in a patch of sunlight, oblivious to the impending volcanic eruption. 16 July 202516 July 2025 · The university The People’s Inquiry shines a light on Palestine repression at Australian universities James McVicar Our universities are employing police-state tactics to discipline and punish students and staff for their opposition to the Gaza genocide. The fact that this censorship is regularly couched in the language of “safety” and “well-being” — while Palestinians in Gaza lining up for starvation rations are being gunned down daily — adds a bitter layer of irony to this disturbing situation.
