Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 200 Spring 2010 · Main Posts Issue 200 Jeff Sparrow Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Correspondence CAL—Art and Life: Bruce Mutard − Nine o’clock finish * Meanland: Jenny Lee − Publishers at the floodgates Essays Chris Graham − Telling whites what they want to hear Michelle Carmody − Beauty without borders Anwyn Crawford − Permanent daylight Jacinda Woodhead − Hip-hop in the Wild West Marion Rankine − Sometimes it takes a writer Alison Croggon − How Australian is it? Clive Hamilton − Appeasing climate denial at the ABC Ben Eltham − Culture is bigger than the arts Boris Kelly − Killing the worm in ourselves Jenny Lee − Meanland essay: Publishers at the floodgates Rjurik Davidson − Liberated zone or pure commodification? Fiction Christos Tsiolkas − Rococo Karen Hitchcock − Forging friendship Janette Turner Hospital − Weird people Poetry Derek Motion − introduction Adam Ford, Zenobia Frost, Rebecca Giggs, Susan Hampton, Stu Hatton, Kelly-lee Hickey, Hal Judge, Dan Lee, Carly-Jay Metcalf, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Derek Motion, Ella O’Keefe, David Prater, Jaya Savige, Bel Schenk, Andrew Slattery, Amelia Walker, Louise Waller, Benny Walter, Fiona Wright − Before elapsing Review Simone Hughes – The City’s Outback (online only) Cover Sally Orpin and Robert Brailsford Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a Walkley Award-winning writer, broadcaster and former editor of Overland. 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 25 May 202326 May 2023 · Main Posts The ‘Chinese question’ and colonial capitalism in New Gold Mountain Christy Tan SBS’s New Gold Mountain sets out to recover the history of the Gold Rush from the marginalised perspective of Chinese settlers but instead reinforces the erasure of Indigenous sovereignty. Although celebrated for its multilingual script and diverse representation, the mini-TV series ignores how the settlement of Chinese migrants and their recruitment into colonial capitalism consolidates the ongoing displacement of First Nations peoples. First published in Overland Issue 228 15 February 202322 February 2023 · Main Posts Self-translation and bilingual writing as a transnational writer in the age of machine translation Ouyang Yu To cut a long story short, it all boils down to the need to go as far away from oneself as possible before one realizes another need to come back to reclaim what has been lost in the process while tying the knot of the opposite ends and merging them into a new transformation.
