Published in Overland Issue 208 Spring 2012 · Uncategorized Issue 208 Jeff Sparrow Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Judy Horacek Alison Croggon Rjurik Davidson Features Jonathan Green The end of a world An elegy for the newspaper Alex Mitchell Fatal obsessions Murdoch’s early years Anwyn Crawford Fat, privilege and resistance A response to Jennifer Lee Matt Cornell Outsider porn Adult goes indie Juliana Qian The name and the face CAL-Connections: On not speaking Chinese Malcolm Harris Twitterland Meanland: The radical terrain of social media Rebecca Giggs Imagining women Feminism and nonfiction Michael Green The cooperation A collective response to unemployment Fiction Jennifer Mills − Architecture Davide Angelo − Double tap Jannali Jones − Blancamorphosis Stephanie Convery − Big river Poetry Todd Turner − Clockwork Lawrence Upton − Human Tissue Cassandra Atherton − Bonds Campbell Thomson − Australia is a film about a red dog Tim Thorne – Honesty Paula Green – Picking Grapes Adam Aitken – Old Europe (2) Shari Kocher – Bellbird Gully Michelle Gaddes – The Tap Julie Maclean – without a city wall Graphics Bruce Mutard Paper planes Sam Wallman cover 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 25 February 202525 February 2025 · the arts Pattern recognition: censorship, control and interference in Australia’s art ecology David Pledger My final thoughts go to the artist and curator who have borne the brunt of this injury. Selection for the Venice Biennale is a significant event for an Australian artist and curator. To be treated so shabbily must cause pain to both. One can only hope the outcry of fellow artists, the solidarity shown by many, and the strong stance of their shortlisted colleagues, provides some succour. 24 February 2025 · Children Family vloggers, kidfluencers, and the commodification of childhood Isabel Prior For all the trite, alarmist laments that three times as many children want to be influencers as astronauts, the fact is that countless Australian children are already engaged in the work of influencing — yet they remain unprotected by our outdated child labour laws. Regardless of its overall merits, the government’s social media ban presents a vital opportunity to introduce legal protections for the children who have become their families’ breadwinners.
