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 First published in Overland Issue 228 27 January 2023 Cartoons In attacking us, they bring us together Sam Wallman 'What these bosses don't understand is that in attacking us, they bring us together.' (Paddy Crumlin, Maritime Union of Australia, Svitzer Rally November 2022) First published in Overland Issue 228 24 January 202325 January 2023 Aotearoa / New Zealand The end of the politics of care Giovanni Tiso The daily spectacle of televised briefings was not unique to New Zealand, and it may simply be the case that Ardern thrived when given the opportunity to speak to the public directly—in other words, that she was better than others at it. Alternatively, we could say that her rhetoric found in the pandemic the ground on which to turn into concrete action. Either way, the benefits we derived in terms of lives saved from the remarkable extension of that social license are literally incalculable.
