Published in Overland Issue 215 Winter 2014 · Uncategorized We will not pay Eddie Paterson you may choose any one of the following combinations death, disability and unemployment, disability and unemployment, death and disability, disability only, or death only. we will not pay for your unemployment, total disablement or death is caused by any injury, illness, sickness or disease. Your misconduct; Your alcoholism or alcohol abuse, drug addiction or drug abuse or your consumption or use of intoxicating liquor, narcotics or drugs (except drugs administered by or taken in accordance with the advice of a registered medical practitioner); Your deliberately self- inflicted injury or illness (including suicide or attempted suicide), whilst sane or insane. we will not pay for your directly or indirectly taking part in a criminal or illegal act; your taking part in a riot, civil commotion, strike or lockout; your period of nuclear radiation; or your connection with terrorism. your war or warlike activities Glossary ‘war or warlike activities’ means war (including war service), hostilities or warlike operations (whether war be declared or not), military activity (other than normal peacetime activity), rebellion, civil war, revolution, insurrection, military or usurped power, invasion, act of foreign enemy or popular or military rising. ‘registered medical practitioner’ means a person who is legally entitled to practice medicine by virtue. ‘self-employed’ means you are employed by yourself over which you or an immediate family member of yours can exercise control. ‘terrorism’ means (a) biological, chemical, radioactive, or nuclear pollution or contamination or explosion; or (b) controlling, preventing, suppressing, retaliating against, or responding to any act referred to in (a) above. ‘nuclear radiation’ means ionising radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or nuclear waste, from the combustion of nuclear fuel (including any self-sustained process of nuclear fission), or from any nuclear weapons material. ‘totally disabled’, ‘total disability’ and ‘total disablement’ means you have suffered. ‘premium’ means the amount paid. Eddie Paterson Eddie Paterson teaches scriptwriting at the University of Melbourne. He is a managing co-editor of Five Islands Press. Some of his poems can be found in the chapbook gameshow.gameshow. More by Eddie Paterson › 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 20 December 202420 December 2024 · Reviews Slippery totalities: appendices on oil and politics in Australia and beyond Scott Robinson Kurmelovs writes at this level of confusion and contradiction for an audience whose unspoken but vaguely progressive politics he takes for granted and yet whose assumed knowledge resembles that of an outraged teenager. There should be a young adult genre of political journalism to accommodate books like this. 19 December 202419 December 2024 · Reviews Reading JH Prynne aloud: Poems 2016-2024 John Kinsella Poems 2016-2024 is a massive, vibrant and immersive collation of JH Prynne’s small press publication across this period. Some would call it a late life creative flourish, a glorious coda, but I don’t see it this way. Rather, this is an accumulation of concerns across a lifetime that have both relied on earlier form work and newly "discovered" expressions of genre that require recasting, resaying, and varying.