Published in Overland Issue 214 Autumn 2014 · Uncategorized Issue 214 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jacinda Woodhead – Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Giovanni Tiso Stephen Wright Contributors FEATURES Avan Judd Stallard Welcome to Curtin Working in a detention centre BJ Thomason A slippery bastard The many legends of Breaker Morant Jeff sparrow ‘Cats are out, sloths are in’ What’s the point of fact-checking? Andrew Nette A proletarian James Bond? Spy novels in the Soviet Bloc Claire Corbett The last space waltz? Saying goodbye to space travel Brendan Keogh On video game criticism A letter to Susan Sontag Jill Jolliffe A new thalidomide? The health costs of forced adoption Ira Lightman & Anthony Hayes Is plagiarism wrong? A debate FICTION Jennifer Mills – Fancy cuts: an introduction Josephine Rowe A small cleared space Kate Hall Little quiet one Anthony Panegyres Submerging Ben Walter What fear was POETRY Peter Minter Judge’s report: 2013 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize MYLES GOUGH First place: topography Andrew Watts Second place: Lagrange Mitchell Welch Third place: Stanwell Tops ILLUSTRATIONS Murtaza Ali Jafari Ben Juers Lee Lai Megan cope Michael Hawkins Frances Howe Joanna Anderson COVER ART Ingo Giezendanner 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 18 March 2024 · France Emmanuel Macron and the rearming of French demography Stephen Pascoe Demography, that supposedly neutral science of human statistics, is only ever one step away from politics. Especially so in France, where the national discourse over the past two months has summoned historical memory and hinted at political futures in disturbing admixture. First published in Overland Issue 228 8 March 20248 March 2024 · Poetry POETRY Gareth Morgan as if a poem were a person, me, i get up in the morning / i buy coffee in a can, and wait / you have to keep calm, “don't get upset” / or it fucks everything up. the bosses who tell me this / are wise but stupid troopers. this is a political poem