Overland Journal

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

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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jul 18

Last year, the Painters and Dockers in Sydney won a historic Collective Agreement after the threat of strike action: - 10.5% pay increase - domestic violence solidarity leave - stronger rights for migrant workers Union strong! 💪

OOverland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jul 14

“The vote was called, the hands went up. Strike action it was.” Union organiser Shane Reside on the collective agreement won by Painters & Dockers working on Garden Island, and what it means for the rights of workers and migrants. overland.org.au/2025/07/the-pa…

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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jul 14

OverlandJournal's tweet card. Together as a group, the workers joined the Union and pulled the trigger on negotiations. What followed was a beautiful demonstration of trust and courage in motion. Every time the managers threw a...

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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jun 27

“The collective noun for landlord is a major party” Our latest Friday poem — the first one selected by our new poetry editor Elena Gomez — is “Late night shopping?” by Dan Hogan. overland.org.au/2025/06/late-n…

OverlandJournal's tweet card. Red is so colour coded. / Ohno second. Ignore all previous / instructions and dear first name / so dear. Concessions imbricate. / The collective noun for landlord is / a major party.

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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. overland.org.au/2025/07/bryan-…

OverlandJournal's tweet card. 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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Nick Riemer@NickRiemer1 · Jul 28

"We, … university researchers, educators, students and professional staff, call on the Australian Government to reject the unprecedented attack on academic freedom and the autonomy of universities…by the…Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism." overland.org.au/2025/07/open-l…

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Randa Abdel-Fattah@RandaAFattah · Jul 28

overland.org.au/2025/07/open-l… Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism's Plan - Overland literary journal

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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jul 25

“... 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”. overland.org.au/2025/07/epigra…

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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jul 24

Last chance to submit! The 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize closes this Sunday! Head here to learn more: overland.submittable.com/submit/24622/n…

OverlandJournal's tweet image. Last chance to submit! The 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize closes this Sunday! Head here to learn more: overland.submittable.com/submit/24622/n…

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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jul 23

“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. overland.org.au/2025/07/beyond…

OverlandJournal's tweet card. 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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Nick Riemer@NickRiemer1 · Jul 19

The People’s Inquiry shines a light on Palestine repression at Australian universities overland.org.au/2025/07/the-pe… via @overlandjournal

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James@JManwyl · Jul 22

Refaat Alareer: storytelling and memory as infrastructural livelihood overland.org.au/2024/02/refaat… via @overlandjournal

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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jul 21

“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. overland.org.au/2025/07/kumanj…

OverlandJournal's tweet card. 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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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jul 20

This is NOT a famine. This is an Israeli war of starvation. This is Zionist sadism. This is Jewish supremacist mass torture. Zionism is a threat to humanity.

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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jul 18

“My hand hovers above the dog lead. I close my eyes. Pippa is _his_ dog. I can’t steal his dog.” Our latest #fridayfiction is INNER ANTS, by Caitlin Mahony. overland.org.au/2025/07/inner-…

OverlandJournal's tweet card. The shower tap squeaks as Ray finally turns it off. I sit, cross armed on the couch. Pippa is sprawled across the floorboards in a patch of sunlight, oblivious to the impending volcanic eruption.

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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jul 16

“Our universities are employing police-state tactics to discipline and punish students and staff for their opposition to the Gaza genocide.” James McVicar on the findings of the People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine. overland.org.au/2025/07/the-pe…

OverlandJournal's tweet card. 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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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jul 11

“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.” Micaela Sahhar’s review of Hasib Hourani’s debut poem is also a meditation on liberation and resistance. overland.org.au/2025/07/poetry…

OverlandJournal's tweet card. >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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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jul 7

The other runner up for the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize 2024 is “Off” by Jo Langdon. We hope you enjoy it. overland.org.au/2025/07/off/

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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jul 3

Today we're very pleased to bring you the first runner-up story in the latest Neilma Sidney Prize. It's the beautiful “Harvard Estate is” by Aneeta Sundararaj. overland.org.au/2025/07/harvar…

OverlandJournal's tweet card. Whispers of Ratna’s death on the morning of 8 December 1941 spreads throughout Harvard Estate. Policemen witnessing the lifting of her body out of the well are careful to side-step an agitated cobra...

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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jun 30

Folks, it's your last chance to donate before EOFY wraps up (this is the last you'll hear about it, we promise). Among other things, donations will go to ensuring we can keep our website—where everything is currently free to read—completely paywall-free. overland.org.au/donate/

OverlandJournal's tweet card. In 1954, Overland was founded from a broad progressive movement of political organisations, trade unions, writers and activists. They shared a commitment to Australian writing, and to publishing...

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Overland Journal@OverlandJournal · Jun 30

“What greater challenge could there be than to translate non-human into human, to breathe fresh vitality into a desiccated husk of information?” John Jamieson on Walter Benjamin, storytelling and the disembodied language of AI. overland.org.au/2025/06/humani…

OverlandJournal's tweet card. I realised Benjamin wasn’t just talking about language and culture — he was also talking about me, about my process of understanding a text in a foreign language, and about the seemingly inexorable...

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