Published in Overland Issue 227 Winter 2017 Uncategorized Issue 227 Editorial team REGULARS Editorial 2 giovanni tiso 16 alison croggon 31 Tony Birch 43 mel campbell 81 Contributors 94 FEATURES Evelyn araluen 3 Resisting the institution Decolonialism and its appropriation Helen MacDonald 11 Richard berry’s disgrace The legacies of scientific racism Kent MacCarter 18 They will oxidise before you even finish reading A survey of micro-press publishing Dan Dixon 33 Money against eternity The most lucrative gambling market Tina Cartwright 40 Pregnant in Mexico A difficult journey lizzie O’Shea 59 Reclaiming the future from the digital colonialists Innovation under capitalism Ng Yi-Sheng 83 A compromising position Sexuality and dissent in Singapore Martin Kovan 90 Subsistence years Fragments of a memoir Nakata brophy Tara June winch, Katherine Firth & Jennifer mills 24 judges’ Notes Evelyn araluen 25 muyum: A transgression Winner fiction George Haddad 66 Broken zippers Mikaella Clements 75 Magpie POETRY Kent MacCarter C 0%, M 69%, Y 100%, K 6% 45 Louise Swinn Collarbone 48 Allison Gallagher First home bile 49 Cassandra Atherton Faulkner 50 John Upton Crossing Galata, Istanbul 51 Ali Cobby Eckermann Apology day Breakfast 52 Saaro Umar his portrayal of coach Boone 53 Sumudu Samarawickrama River of crumbs 54 Luke Beesley Spotless 56 Syndromes and a Century* 57 Corey Wakeling Beacon 58 artwork yee i-Lann Guest artist issue 227: cover; illustrations pages 3, 25, 66, 75 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 2 First published in Overland Issue 228 20 March 202320 March 2023 War The bus to Baghdad Stephen Pascoe In place of reflection and reform, our leaders have committed to an ever-greater intermeshing of Australian and American forces: what is referred to in contemporary military double-speak as ‘interoperability’. The new AUKUS framework has largely extended the surrendering of our sovereignty and capacity for independent defence decision-making to the American Empire. 1 First published in Overland Issue 228 17 March 202317 March 2023 Friday Fiction Fiction | Wonder women of the lizard world Rebekah Roma I was fanning myself with a textbook when the tradie told me about the gecko. It had, in search of reprieve from the burning meteorological irregularity, crawled inside our air conditioning unit, damaged the wiring, and gotten itself fried. Without climate control, we had suffered through December and January, red-faced and irritable.
