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 2 29 May 202629 May 2026 · Politics Zionism in real-time: insights from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Nick Riemer While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of antisemitism in Australia at the present moment, it is perverse that the Commission has refused to hear from the Palestine solidarity movement. 27 May 2026 · Reviews Losing our sense of struggle: Fiona Wright’s Kill Your Boomers May Ngo The precarity described in Kill Your Boomers feels mitigated — more existential than material. It’s the precarity of being lost in your life, rather than the threat of having to sleep out on the streets.
