Published in Overland Issue 215 Winter 2014 · Uncategorized Issue 215 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Giovanni Tiso Stephen Wright Contributors FEATURES James Muldoon Mourning democracy A post-democratic era? Anwyn Crawford The biennale boycott Why it was right to protest Juliana Qian & Elizabeth O’Shea Should the Left check its privilege? A debate Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Horrors of history The politics of Wolf Creek 2 Maddee Clark Against authenticity CAL–Connections: Queer Indigenous identities Jacinda Woodhead Hard for the money Writers and payment Madeleine Hamilton A process of survival Life in a girls’ detention centre Sean Scalmer On the age of entitlement The vocabulary of austerity Nakata Brophy Prize For young Indigenous Writers Judges’ report FICTION Jennifer Mills – Fancy cuts: an introduction Josephine Rowe A small cleared space Tara Cartland Nativity Fikret Pajalic Boonie Clare Rhoden Man/machine/dog POETRY Paul Giles Sydney Luke Best Desire Eddie Paterson We will not pay John Hawke The point Stu Hatton departures/arrivals Ann de Hugard After the riot Michelle Cahill Castrato Jenni Nixon Borderlines Jessica Hart Land mountain 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 1 June 20231 June 2023 · Politics Turning peaceful protesters into criminals—again Evan Smith So the Summary Offences (Obstruction of Public Places) Bill 2023 has been passed by South Australia’s Legislative Assembly and will become law. Fifteen hours of debate in the upper house, led by the Greens and SA Best, could not overturn the bill that was reportedly rushed through the lower house in just twenty-two minutes a fortnight ago. First published in Overland Issue 228 31 May 202331 May 2023 · Film In Memoriam: Kenneth Anger’s cinematic incantations Eloise Ross ‘Making a movie is casting a spell,’ said Kenneth Anger about his lifelong profession, his unique and spectacular talent, his very own dark magic. That certainly describes how I was lured into his realm. There was a time in my life where I would watch Anger’s seven-minute film Rabbit’s Moon basically on repeat, infatuated by its blue-tinted images of a sprightly harlequin dancing around a clearing and calling silently to the moon. It was poetry.
