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 First published in Overland Issue 228 9 June 20239 June 2023 · Aotearoa / New Zealand Ko wai mātou—we are water Hana Pera Aoake Dr Huhana Smith Dr Huhana Smith and cousins have spent the last twenty years focussing on the restoration of her ancestral coastal land and waterways at Kuku Beach, near Levin, in Aotearoa/New Zealand, using biochar—the carbon-rich remains of slow-burned wood. Smith and her collaborators use biochar not only as a tool for land restoration, but also as an artistic medium. Their work is critical for thinking about what is possible when Māori communities have control of their cultural and spiritual bases. First published in Overland Issue 228 8 June 2023 · Technology ‘AI’ and the quest to redefine workers’ autonomy Rob Horning The phrase artificial intelligence is a profoundly ideological way to characterise automation technologies. It is an expression of the general tendency to discuss technologies as though they were ‘powerful’ in and of themselves—as if power weren’t a relative measure of the different capacities and prerogatives of social classes.