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“I didn’t get far through my call centre de-escalation training but telling someone they might punch you seems like the opposite of de-escalation. I look at him again, trying to listen to his feelings.”
From IN MY PANTS, a new story by Ismene Panaretos.
We’re sweating. There’s so much bodily fluid in this room that the two of us together could’ve fixed the millennium drought. He’s in his forties. Or he could be nineteen. Kind of hard to tell with the...
Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.
“With an inflated sense of its renewed mandate, Labor seems poised to concretise its anti-democratic potential.”
Giacomo Bianchino on Australian politics and the end of government by consent.
Even though the election was won on the ground of domestic economic concerns, and the incompetency of the Liberals, it was treated as a sanctioning of this new soft authoritarianism. Since then, Labor...
“In order to be silent to colonial atrocity, past and present, settler society makes as much noise as possible, especially through mythological havoc. ”
From Dan Hogan's pyrotechnic review of Patrick Malrborough's NOCK LOOSE. Part of a series of critical essays supported by @copyright.com.au.
Nock Loose is radically silly, and it is the novel’s radical silliness that had me writing notes like “finally, Western Australian realism” and “it is easier to imagine the next extinction event than ...
“The organic solidarity on display across ANU gives the institution its moral clarity and counterweight to a bureaucracy that risks becoming a case as hard as steel.”
Beck Pearse on an institution at a crossroads.
The organic solidarity on display across ANU gives the institution its moral clarity and counterweight to a bureaucracy that risks becoming a case as hard as steel. In the last six months, ANU staff, ...
In her latest comic for Overland, Sofia Sabbagh responds to Israel’s E1 settlement plan, illustrating a quote by American-Palestinian journalist and writer Mariam Barghouti.
While Gaza City is being systematically taken over, house by house, Australia has condemned Israel's plan to build E1 — a settlement which will cut the West Bank into two. But condemning Israel's plan...
“If you don’t fight, you lose”. Sarah Missen and Sam Wallman continue their ongoing examination of the state of things at the CFMEU — and answer the question of whether Mark Irving is or isn’t a werewolf.
This blue between Administration and the rank-and-file will be the definitive dispute for this generation of CFMEU members. How the battle is fought will shape the identity of the CFMEU as much as the...
“All people deserve to live free from violence. And all victims of violence and their allies must be allowed to speak out about their experience.”
Sonia Orchard on withdrawing from the Bendigo Writers Festival.
We have witnessed what happens when uncomfortable truths are censored — particularly when voiced by artists, intellectuals and academics — too many times historically. We have seen where the attempt ...
This poem was written to perform at Fine Print Magazine's Narrative Sabotage event in July. Thanks to @overlandjournal.bsky.social for publishing a re-worked version.
I'm very new to poetry, but it felt good releasing some rightous rage.
From the river to the sea / always was always will be ✊🏾
I've bundled up my grief and rage - towards apartheid Israel, the horror of witnessing the live-streamed genocide of Palestinian people, seeing writer-peers stand up/speak up while politicians do nothing, the loss of my Black & Write Fellowship - and wrote a poem overland.org.au/2025/08/star...
Ending genocide and apartheid is the story. Palestinian liberation is the story. / Aboriginal rights is the story. Truth, justice, treaties and land back is the story. / Global Indigenous peoples’ sol...
“The moon weeps over Palestine weaving tears into silvery shrouds.”
From “starmight”, a new poem by K.A Ren Wyld.
Ending genocide and apartheid is the story. Palestinian liberation is the story. / Aboriginal rights is the story. Truth, justice, treaties and land back is the story. / Global Indigenous peoples’ sol...
