Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 198 Autumn 2010 · Main Posts Issue 198 Jeff Sparrow Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Correspondence Essays Mungo MacCallum − Rudd and the boat people Meanland: Margaret Simons − Reading in an age of change Towards 200: Raewyn Connell − Bread and waratahs Lizzie O’Shea − Letters from death row CAL—Art and life: Simon Sellars − Hiding in plain sight * Brian Walters − Justice on trial Kevin Foster − Embedding control Michael Brull − But what about Zionism? Fiction Miriam Sved − Best and fairest Phillip Tang − Bits Tim Richards − Dog’s life Reviews Kerry Leves − The Children of Leonidas James Ley − A healthy diversity Vane Lindesay − Comic Commentators (web only) Poetry Duncan Hose − settler’s mess Michael Farrell − wide open road Anna Ryan-Punch − Differential Threshold Ryan Scott − Disquisition on Home Stuart Cooke − Your Sea Kevin Gillam − instructions mislaid Kate White − RE: Total inexactitude Matthew Hall − Set Maysoon Elnigoumi − A souqi Rebecca Giggs − The Easement Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, broadcaster and Walkley award-winning journalist. He is a former columnist for Guardian Australia, a former Breakfaster at radio station 3RRR, and a past editor of Overland. His most recent book is a collaboration with Sam Wallman called Twelve Rules for Strife (Scribe). He works at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. More by Jeff Sparrow › 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 20 March 20262 April 2026 · Main Posts Final results of the 2025 Judith Wright Poetry Prize Editorial team Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize seeks outstanding poetry from new and emerging writers. This year’s judges, Shastra Deo, Harry Reid and […] 20 March 202620 March 2026 · Main Posts Final results of the 2025 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize Editorial team Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize seeks outstanding original short fiction of up to 3000 words themed loosely around the notion […]
