Overland Journal

Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954. | Editors: @evelynaraluen @jonathandunk @gtiso @ccorbettauthor

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Our annual EOFY donation drive is now on. We know these aren't easy times, so we're grateful for any contribution you're able to offer. Every dollar is tax-deductible and goes directly to the costs of producing Overland both in print and online. https://t.co/XDwEY9Jh07

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"alongside the deadpanned river
whited-out with salinity,
a triptych of three blue trees"

Our latest #FridayPoem is THE STRAINS OF SURREALISM IN SAD REALITIES by John Kinsella.

https://t.co/ewfgB9Qi35

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“The intergenerational work we do is the public university’s most essential long-term asset, but formal accounting records it as a cost to be minimised.”

Beck Pearse on the exercise of financial power at ANU https://t.co/rPVnorNnzc

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Be appalled and scared of One Nation's ascent all you want. I am. But don't let it convince you that Australia doesn't already have a right-wing racist billionaire-controlled government. That's our resting heart rate as a nation, we've just normalised a specific variety of it.

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“The final trick of OR is that it stages something utterly universal: the search for a momentary recognition of ourselves in language.”

Grace Roodenrys reviews Toby Fitch, brilliantly.
https://t.co/VB8QxlXPun

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“What is now being reassembled under the banner of fighting antisemitism is a shift in the figure of the ‘bad’ Muslim: from the radical Muslim to the antisemitic Muslim.”

Sara Cheikh Husain on the future laid out by the Royal Commission.
https://t.co/loS1p3p3T9

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“To remain in place without the means to move is to experience a narrowing of possible futures.”

Emma Goldrick on how distance in Australia is political
https://t.co/ysFAwPy2RH

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“We crossed the half-buried railway line and the crazy man known as Treadly Tim turned a corner around the van park and came toward us on his Malvern Star bicycle.”

Any more of this new micro fiction by Patrick Holland, and we’d give the whole thing away.
https://t.co/hJHDlY9qLb

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“CALENDAR is a unique object in and of itself as much as it is about objects.”

Courtney Powell on Vanessa Berry’s new book, its origins in zine culture and the material world as an ecology of signs.

https://t.co/gU3evwdCTj

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“GeoCities remains an important reminder that collective labour on the internet is not new — and that recognising ourselves as workers is the first step towards organising as such.”

Maria Dudko on social media as work.

https://t.co/TK41Xo8z3J

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“More than four decades on, Edward Said’s famous observation that ‘permission to narrate’ is denied to the Palestinian perspective has lost none of its currency.”
Nick Riemer reviews the transcripts of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism & Social Cohesion https://t.co/KinBhSUyQP

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Save the date and RSVP now to book your spot at GET STARTED, SOMEONE WILL FINISH, a night of readings from writers working in the left tradition in Naarm. RSVP here: https://t.co/r7dg8JhYIk

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“Because there’s no doubt that more people are being screwed than ever in the housing market ... But some people have always been screwed.”

May Ngo reviews Fiona Wright’s KILL YOUR BOOMERS - with the generous support of @CopyrightAgency. https://t.co/NFZPWEAcNI

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“To conduct her so-called “audit”, Jillian Segal appointed a man who’d had not only found the universities guilty of tolerating antisemitism but had described them as “subscribing” to it.”

Jeff Sparrow on Greg Craven's antisemitism audit. https://t.co/XwVeg7iR3R

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“… We knew they could / only be betrayed by their own.”

Our latest #fridaypoem is JUDAS GOATS by Caitlin Maling
https://t.co/Wq0sARDbZc

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“In order to be what it is, poetry has to cross the line and keep on crossing it.”

Louis Armand reviews Pam Brown’s GUESS THE EXPERIENCE
https://t.co/ZqSXqHW2HV

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“The AI arms race is inherently an energy arms race. And Australia is being conscripted into both.”

Gwenaël Velge on Australia’s manufactured security crisis
https://t.co/5jN4Xb5U7T

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“It rose into the sky, this gigantic column made of stones and items of clothing, mainly underwear.”

From THE STRUCTURE, a new story by Dominic Carey and our latest #fridayfiction https://t.co/AHI5Yskj9f

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Sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne, the 2026 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers is now open for your best poetic submissions. Judges are Evelyn Araluen and Luke Patterson. Submissions close 17th July. SUBMIT: https://t.co/BgatnFPfSy

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“Chance mechanics have been increasingly exploited by the gaming industry to attract players, including very young ones. And while the government is clearly aware of the risks, it really isn’t clear what the right step forward is.”

Tom Gurn on loot boxes https://t.co/SfxeyHtN17