Published in Overland Issue 189 Summer 2007 · Uncategorized Issue 189 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Christos Tsiolkas – Torch Song Overland Lecture Ramona Koval In Praise of the Common Reader Features Liz Conor Howard’s Desert Storm Mary-Ellen Stringer The Sky as Common Ground Kevin Foster A Sociable Paradise Tom O’Lincoln Hearts Starve as Well as Bodies Shane Cahill ‘This Fascist Mob’ Jeff Sparrow Theatre of War Nicole Moore Art Makes the World: Mona Brand, 1915-2007 Fiction Jennifer Robertson The Hotel Lobby Kaye Watson The Effortlessness of Being Jeremy Fisher Winter Afternoon Poetry David Prater Travelling Types John Kinsella Elegy For (unavailable online) Will Fraser Shackled A Genuine Fact Greg McLaren Neath Colliery: a found poem Ali Alizadeh Culture and Its Terrors Murray Alfredson Angus dei Jonathan Hadwen Cops on Horses MTC Cronin Being Interviewed in The Scottish Book Collector Paul Hetherington At Home Kerry Scuffins Advance Australian Fear Tatjana Lukic waiting for a change Kevin Gillam dismantling the Trans. Stuart Cooke What Spain Was Reviews Kerry Leves Looking Out at the Lights: New Poetry Lucy Sussex Goths and Vandals Louise Swinn Unpicking the Universe Jamie Cooke Switched Off: Australia’s Media Barry Dickins The First Poet of His People Lyndall Ryan In Quite a State Nathan Hollier Ruling Passions Editorial team More by Editorial team › 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 21 February 202521 February 2025 · The university Closing the noose: a dispatch from the front line of decasualisation Matthew Taft Across the board, universities have responded to legislation aimed at rectifying this already grim situation by halting casual hiring, cutting courses, expanding class sizes, and increasing the workloads of permanent staff. This is an unintended consequence of the legislation, yes, but given the nefarious history of the university, from systemic wage theft to bad-faith bargaining, hardly a surprising one. 19 February 2025 · Disability The devaluing of disability support Áine Kelly-Costello and Jonathan Craig Over the past couple of decades, disabled people in much of the Western world have often sought, or agreed to, more individualised funding schemes in order to gain greater “choice and control” over the support we receive. But the autonomy, dignity and flexibility we were promised seems constantly under threat or out of reach, largely because of the perception that allowing us such “luxuries” is too expensive.
