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 First published in Overland Issue 228 2 December 20222 December 2022 The university In search of lost bargains: An interview with Scott Fitzgerald, Ryan Mead-Hunter and Francis Russell of the Bargain Hunters podcast Scott Robinson and Danni McGrath We discovered Bargain Hunters: The Curtin NTEU EBA Podcast as our own university, Monash, and the local branch of the NTEU) enter their own bargaining round. After years of workers bearing the burden of rapid COVID changes, cost of living pressures, overwork and decades of growing job insecurity, this bargaining round feels different: an opportunity for workers to articulate a vision of the university against the neoliberalised, corporate managerialism that dominates the sector and most workplaces in the country. First published in Overland Issue 228 1 December 20221 December 2022 Reviews Calling the racist a racist: Janaka Malwatta’s blackbirds don’t mate with starlings John Kinsella Malwatta is a skilled and motivated user of tone and tonality in expression, and he shifts between perpetrator and victim with a disturbing but powerful ease: we hear the racists in the hospital, we hear them at the barbecue, and we hear the racism coming from the mouths of white leaders and dissemblers.
