Published in Overland Issue 212 Spring 2013 · Uncategorized Issue 212 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Correspondence Stephen Wright Judy Horacek Rjurik Davidson Features Nic Maclellan What has Australia done to Nauru? The real price of offshore detention Alison Croggon Why art? How to defend arts funding Tad Tietze A change in the order of things? The shifting fortunes of the Australian Greens El Gibbs Equal but different CAL–Connections: A critique of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Paddy Gibson Stolen futures The return of Indigenous child removal Peter Polites and Stephanie Convery Speaking for the Other? A debate about authorship and identity David Renton Politics that breaks down people’s fear The story of the Anti-Nazi League Rebecca Starford Healthy relations Exercise and writing Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke Harlem Jones Kay Harrison Red cork platform heels Lucy Treloar Natural selection Poetry Louise Crisp Podocarpus berries Liam Ferney one of us has chosen to come to the sea Robert Verdon This Joel Scott Fête accompli Graphics Sam Wallman 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.
