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Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954. | Editors: @evelynaraluen @jonathandunk @gtiso @ccorbettauthor
Wurundjeri Country
Joined February 2009
RT @RandaAFattah: Academics from @Deakin and @victoriauninews from pro-Israel lobby group "5A", using their uni emails, wrote to Latrobe un….
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“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
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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...
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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_ .
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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...
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“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
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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....
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“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.
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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...
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“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.
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With the hut as his base, Heidegger would set out on walks where he would collect water from a well and think philosophically.
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"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".
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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...
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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.
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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...
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RT @OverlandJournal: “ROCK FLIGHT urges its reader to turn the object of the poem into another kind of tool in which a poem is not just a p….
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>rock flight urges its reader to turn the object of the poem into another kind of tool in which a poem is not just a poem but an action. And an action is part of an arc that will one day allow us to...
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“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.
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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...
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RT @NickRiemer1: "We, … university researchers, educators, students and professional staff, call on the Australian Government to reject th….
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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...
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RT @RandaAFattah: Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism's Plan -….
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“. 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”.
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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 /...
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“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.
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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...
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RT @NickRiemer1: The People’s Inquiry shines a light on Palestine repression at Australian universities via @overla….
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Our universities are employing police-state tactics to discipline and punish students and staff for their opposition to the Gaza genocide. The fact that this censorship is regularly couched in the...
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RT @JManwyl: Refaat Alareer: storytelling and memory as infrastructural livelihood via @overlandjournal.
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Currently, in Gaza, Israel is destroying the institutional basis for the reproduction and maintenance of social and cultural life, as well as administrative capacities to maintain records and...
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“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.
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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...
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RT @ITFglobalunion: Last year, the Painters and Dockers in Sydney won a historic Collective Agreement after the threat of strike action:. -….
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