OverlandJournal Profile Banner
Overland Journal Profile
Overland Journal

@OverlandJournal

Followers
19K
Following
6K
Media
483
Statuses
17K

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

Wurundjeri Country
Joined February 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
3 days
RT @RandaAFattah: Academics from @Deakin and @victoriauninews from pro-Israel lobby group "5A", using their uni emails, wrote to Latrobe un….
0
578
0
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
7 days
RT @withMEAA: Targeting journalists is a war crime. As colleagues, we remember them.
0
88
0
@grok
Grok
2 days
Join millions who have switched to Grok.
78
68
698
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
8 days
“In place of carceral hegemony, we can build solidarities rooted in mutual care, collective responsibility, and the belief that everyone deserves to live free from violence, including the violence of the state.”.Sheena Colquhoun on Victoria’s new bail laws
Tweet card summary image
overland.org.au
In place of carceral hegemony, we can build solidarities rooted in mutual care, collective responsibility, and the belief that everyone deserves to live free from violence, including the violence of...
0
2
5
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
10 days
Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn on Australia’s new energy crossroads and how “the fight against fracking once again sees the communities on the front lines of the climate crisis.” . Generously supported by the good folks at @Co_Power_ .
Tweet card summary image
overland.org.au
From corrupt politicians to tech billionaires, the fight against fracking once again sees the communities on the front lines of the climate crisis come up against an intricate network of big business...
0
5
6
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
13 days
“I fall asleep and dream of being a wolf howling at the moon and padding quietly into a warm den in the bush. Being an animal is better than being a human animal.”. Our brand new #FridayFiction is EXISTENCE IS RESISTANCE IS LOVE: BODIES by Katie Shammas
Tweet card summary image
overland.org.au
When I can’t turn my mind off or slow my heart enough to sleep, I dig out the pink rosary beads buried at the back of my sock drawer. Lying still under the sheets I whisper a decade of Hail Marys....
0
6
6
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
14 days
“C minor rings out mournfully across the dairy plains of central northern Tasmania in the cool night air, in the feathery dawn light, in the buttery low-angled afternoon sun.”. A lyrical piece by Liz Conor on the practice of bobby calving.
overland.org.au
If dairy farmers can be subsidised against flood and drought, can’t they also against cruelty? That would depend on each of our choices, and making them as visible as animal activists have sought to...
0
1
1
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
15 days
“With the hut as his base, Heidegger would set out on walks where he would collect water from a well and think philosophically.”. This is different, but in a good way: a comic by Chris Fleming on philosophers and their huts.
Tweet card summary image
overland.org.au
With the hut as his base, Heidegger would set out on walks where he would collect water from a well and think philosophically.
0
2
3
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
17 days
"Ultimately, what is at stake in the rise of community housing organisations isn’t just housing access — it’s the political and moral landscape of dwelling itself.".David Kelly on the replication of colonial governance under the guise "housing choice".
Tweet card summary image
overland.org.au
As community housing organisations continue to expand into becoming Australia’s largest landlords, critical questions emerge about the fitness of these institutions to provide secure, rights-based...
1
3
9
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
20 days
For our ongoing series of critical essays supported by @CopyrightAgency, Sam Elkin reviews Keio Yoshida’s new book PRIDE AND PREJUDICES: QUEER LIVES AND THE LAW.
Tweet card summary image
overland.org.au
It’s into this uncertain moment that the UK-based international human rights lawyer Keio Yoshida’s optimistic Pride and Prejudices: queer lives and the law saw its release. The book’s core argument...
0
1
0
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
23 days
“Most likely, Johnson will live a much longer life than most people. But probably not because of his laser-focus on his lifestyle. Rather, because he is wealthy.”. Erin Stewart on Bryan Johnson and the latest tantrums of tech transhumanism.
Tweet card summary image
overland.org.au
When Johnson claims that “death defenders” are “helpless”, he unwittingly gets to the point. The majority of the world does not have the cash to pay a team of doctors so that they may live. If you...
0
4
7
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
23 days
RT @NickRiemer1: "We, … university researchers, educators, students and professional staff, call on the Australian Government to reject th….
Tweet card summary image
overland.org.au
We, the undersigned university researchers, educators, students and professional staff, call on the Australian Government to reject the unprecedented attack on academic freedom and the autonomy of...
0
814
0
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
24 days
RT @RandaAFattah: Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism's Plan -….
0
180
0
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
27 days
“. Wealth.is obscene, and poems.are no safe-zones.from the brutality.of clichés.”. We’re delighted to bring you a new, long poem by John Kinsella, “Epigrams against wealth”.
Tweet card summary image
overland.org.au
Each righteous description / and each derivation / of sun possession / to own a brand-name, / patterning of time / on skin. Wealth / is obscene, and poems / are no safe-zones / from the brutality /...
0
0
1
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
28 days
Last chance to submit! The 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize closes this Sunday! Head here to learn more:
Tweet media one
0
4
5
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
29 days
“The rise in autistic self-identification with rigid lists of behaviours and “symptoms” is at odds with the utopian intentions of the neurodiversity movement.”. Clem Bastow and Ali Schnabel on online neurodiversity in late capitalism.
Tweet card summary image
overland.org.au
Autistic/ADHD people and their loved ones who enthusiastically endorse these paradigms are reacting to an impoverished system: in grasping at a deeper understanding of themselves, they are trying to...
0
6
11
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
1 month
“There can be no true justice and accountability while police are permitted to investigate the actions of their colleagues in relation to complaints and deaths in police custody.”. Maggie Munn and Monique Hurley on the Kumanjayi Walker inquest.
Tweet card summary image
overland.org.au
The path forward is clear and this moment must be a reckoning for holding police to account. Governments must end the status quo of the police investigating themselves and dodging accountability for...
0
10
11
@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
1 month
RT @ITFglobalunion: Last year, the Painters and Dockers in Sydney won a historic Collective Agreement after the threat of strike action:. -….
0
1
0