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 21 April 202621 April 2026 · Reviews Pilled to the gills: Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson’s Conspiracy Nation Cher Tan The question that Conspiracy Nation implicitly raises isn’t why people believe in conspiracy theories but rather why people have stopped trusting official narratives. But what do we do with this knowledge? When we call something a conspiracy theory, what work are we doing? Who benefits from that designation? 17 April 2026 · Friday Fiction These old hands, they are still growing Sam Fisher It was an old house meshed in an unrelenting grid of brick and weatherboard. Its walls still stood stark, red brick. Paint like tender old sagging skin on the timber windows. A bastard of a garden surrounded it, ran up brick wall and concrete path. The lawn, dead that time of year, luminescent in the streetlight. In the center of that void, a sign, Auction.
