Published in Overland Issue 213 Summer 2013 · Uncategorized Issue 213 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Judy Horacek Rjurik Davidson Stephen Wright Features David Brophy John Campbell, the Anti-Kim The strange story of a British boy lost in Afghanistan Tom Clark Paul Keating’s Redfern Park speech and its rhetorical legacy How do you separate the orator and the oration? Lisa Vetten Islands adrift Fighting back against rape culture in South Africa Arnold Zable and Alexis Wright The future of swans A PEN dialogue on Wright’s new novel Subhash Jaireth ‘It can’t go on like this anymore’ The tragedy and triumph of Mikhail Bulgakov Mel Campbell The writer as performer Authorship and selling the self Geoff Robinson Spectres of labourism What were the lessons of the ALP’s defeat? Hugo J Race The storm breaking Rock’n’roll in Mali Fiction Jennifer Mills Report on the Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize 2013 Jennifer Down Turncoat Nic Low Rush Robyn Dennison The job Poetry Stuart Cooke Wander in &/Under Anne Elvey Treasure hunt Adam Formosa Northgate Jessica Wilkinson Jazz hands Fiona Wright Marrickville Elizabeth Allen Refrigerator Samuel Wagan Watson Cloud burst Brenda Saunders Walmadany Mark Mordue I didn’t know your eyes were blue Larry Buttrose Toast Illustrations 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 31 January 202531 January 2025 · Racism The QUT Symposium: holding the line against rising racism Elizabeth Strakosch, Jordy Silverstein, Crystal McKinnon, Eugenia Flynn, Natalie Ironfield, Holly Charles, Priya Kunjan, Roj Amedi and Lina Koleilat Last weeks's QUT Symposium met in the staunch tradition of the Brisbane Blacks, who have fought for sovereignty, land rights, liberation and an end to racial violence for decades. It was a gathering of Elders, academics, organisers and frontline community workers who speak, theorise and embody the truth about race and racism in this place. It refused to clothe itself in multicultural platitudes about tolerance, or to speak about racism only in terms of individual prejudice. 29 January 202529 January 2025 · Palestine The demonisation of the Palestine movement fuels anti-Muslim racism Mariam Tohamy and Miroslav Sandev The spate of anti-Muslim racist attacks around the country are being fuelled by the anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian policies of mainstream politicians. Political attempts to undermine the Palestine movement and bipartisan support for Israel’s genocide are causing this.
