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 First published in Overland Issue 228 1 December 20231 December 2023 · History ‘We’re doing everything but treaty’: Law reform and sovereign refusal in the colonial debtscape Maria Giannacopoulos I coined the concept of the colonial debtscape while working to understand the relation between debt and sovereignty in the wake of the 2007 Global Financial crisis. Despite the referendum held in Greece in 2015 where the people voted against austerity, austerity as punishment, was imposed anyway. As this was a colonising move, that is, the imposition of an external and foreign law on local populations against their will, it was to Aboriginal scholars here that I turned to begin to put the pieces together. First published in Overland Issue 228 30 November 202330 November 2023 · Urbanism The Plains exposes the psychic terrain of Victoria’s highways Fred Pryce The Plains charts the psychic terrain of the freeway in miniature, peeling back the lid of the private vehicle to expose just one of the millions of dramas taking place in simultaneity, severed from one another yet still part of the same city-wide traffic ballet.
