Published in Overland Issue 224 Spring 2016 · Uncategorized Issue 224 Editorial team REGULARS Editorial – Jacinda Woodhead Natalie Harkin Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Correspondence Contributors FEATURES Tim Robertson Inside the sweatshop of the world Labouring in China Ben Eltham Out of touch Politicians and their salaries Rachel Hennessy Engaged and enraged Why writers write Alice Grundy For what it’s worth Books: do they cost too much? Giovanni Tiso You can’t have your revolution Who owns the internet? Richard Seymour Jeremy and the jeremiads Dissecting Corbynphobia Gerhard Hoffstaedter The limits of compassion Speaking with refugees in Malaysia Alex Griffin Just violations Using and abusing Manus Island fiction Jennifer Mills, Alison Whan, Jacinda Woodhead 2016 VU Short Story Prize report julia tulloh harper First place: Broad hatchet AS Runner-up: The acorn of sadness Ben Walter Runner-up: All hollows POETRY Zoë Barnard ImpulsE Stranger, Grandfather 82 John Kinsella The Tenets or Tenants of Sweeney A J Carruthers Axis 49: CARD 84 Michael Farrell Solve a problem and it grows two heads Holiday pattern Catherine Vidler Chaingrass Untitled liam ferney Greenslopes in March Caitlin Maling Gods of my youth artwork JACOB ROLFE Guest artist issue 224: cover, illustrations pages 28, 34, 40 brent stegeman All other artwork 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 31 January 202531 January 2025 · Racism The QUT Symposium: holding the line against rising racism Elizabeth Strakosch, Jordy Silverstein, Crystal McKinnon, Eugenia Flynn, Natalie Ironfield, Holly Charles, Priya Kunjan, Roj Amedi and Lina Koleilat Last weeks's QUT Symposium met in the staunch tradition of the Brisbane Blacks, who have fought for sovereignty, land rights, liberation and an end to racial violence for decades. It was a gathering of Elders, academics, organisers and frontline community workers who speak, theorise and embody the truth about race and racism in this place. It refused to clothe itself in multicultural platitudes about tolerance, or to speak about racism only in terms of individual prejudice. 29 January 202529 January 2025 · Palestine The demonisation of the Palestine movement fuels anti-Muslim racism Mariam Tohamy and Miroslav Sandev The spate of anti-Muslim racist attacks around the country are being fuelled by the anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian policies of mainstream politicians. Political attempts to undermine the Palestine movement and bipartisan support for Israel’s genocide are causing this.