Published in Overland Issue 219 Winter 2015 · Uncategorized Issue 219 Editorial team REGULARS Giovanni Tiso – Editorial Stephen Wright Alison Croggon Mel Campbell FEATURES Morgan Godfery Settled peacefully The stories told about our colonial histories Faisal Al-Asaad ‘In a rage almost all the time’ From Gaza to Ferguson John Clarke The things she did A eulogy Catriona MacLennan The ethics of defence Lawyers and rape trials Max Rashbrooke At a price A short history of free speech Nicky Hager Loose lips Working with whistleblowers Scott Hamilton ‘Pass the ta’e please’ Tonga after Futa Helu Anton Blank Change is the only constant On gay role models FICTION Jolisa Gracewood – Fiction editorial Tina Makereti – Monster Pip Adam – Zero hours Lawrence Patchett – Intruder POETRY Robert Sullivan – Poetry editorial Tulia Thompson Fruit bowl Airini Beautrais Flow Nicole Hawkins Māori dux Anna Jackson Call me Careo Ben Brown Red tiki Selina Tusitala Marsh Cumming Reihana Robinson Terra nullius Kiri Piahana-Wong Hiding Murray Edmond His poetry: a paragraph in its defence Apirana Taylor thank you pukana Rachel J Fenton Exhumed at Earth’s end ARTWORK Marian maguire 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 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. 15 April 202615 April 2026 · Climate politics The $67 billion climate betrayal: how Australia’s record fossil fuel subsidies fund global destruction Noa Wynn The contradictions aren't failures of implementation. They're the predictable result of a political system that has decided fossil fuel profits matter more than climate stability, more than the Great Barrier Reef, more than Pacific Islander lives, and more than the future habitability of the planet.
