Published in Overland Issue 221 Summer 2015 · Uncategorized Tamarisk Jason Walker ‘you missed it’, I asked? her pearl button stamped from shell time to re-negotiate that deal with a cigarette and halo’d by it’s coal we set to work once more draining day from the earth. Jason Walker Jason Walker is a pedal steel player and songwriter who works in wildly diverse genres. He is also a respected music writer and journalist who has published biographies on Gram Parsons and Billy Thorpe. More by Jason Walker › 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 3 March 20253 March 2025 · Cartoons RIP woke, methed-up Ned Kelly Sam Wallman and Reuben Winmar Upon visiting the State Library of Victoria on a warm December morning, Sam Wallman and Reuben Winmar speculate on what Ned Kelly might get up to if he was alive today. 27 February 202527 February 2025 · ecology Keeping it in the ground: pasts, presents and futures of Australian uranium Nicholas Herriot Uranium has come a long way from the “modern Midas mineral” of the 1950s. However, in an increasingly dangerous, militaristic and volatile world, it remains a lucrative and potentially lethal metal. And it is so important precisely because of its contested past and possible futures.
