Overland Journal

"I have no reason to doubt Corbyn’s sincerity in rejecting antisemitism. The problem is that the rhetorical framing of his critique ... resonates with noxious forms of ideology and ressentiment."https://overland.org.au/2019/04/mistaking-symptoms-for-causes-the-link-between-moralism-and-anti-semitism/ …

Joshua Mostafa (@JoshuaMostafa) on the charges of antisemitism against UK Labour and the perils of moralistic critiques of capitalism.https://overland.org.au/2019/04/mistaking-symptoms-for-causes-the-link-between-moralism-and-anti-semitism/ …

By perpetuating the myth of John Batman’s tricking of the Kulin people, we avoid having to address how settler society benefits to this day from their dispossession.https://overland.org.au/2019/04/the-stubborn-myth-of-batmans-treaty/ …

George Ganitis (@George_Ganitis) on the denial of Indigenous agency in the school-book history of Batman's Treaty.https://overland.org.au/2019/04/the-stubborn-myth-of-batmans-treaty/ …

"To read Windschuttle’s tempestuous defence of Pell is to witness the conspiratorial logic of contemporary conservatism forcefully deployed. "https://overland.org.au/2019/04/cardinal-rules-keith-windschuttles-extraordinary-defence-of-george-pell/ …

'The safeguarding of Pell’s innocence is another manifestation of this anxious desire to secure the power structures as they are – that is, a world in which old white men can dine with one another in peace, safe from resentment and safe from the law.'https://overland.org.au/2019/04/cardinal-rules-keith-windschuttles-extraordinary-defence-of-george-pell/ …

In which Dan Dixon (@danldixon) excoriates Keith Windschuttle's latest defence of Cardinal Pell.https://overland.org.au/2019/04/cardinal-rules-keith-windschuttles-extraordinary-defence-of-george-pell/ …

"Mark has developed a friendly, jocular relationship with his own Black Saturday demons. To my surprise, I learn that nearly the whole town have. They’ve all got it. PTSD is now the measles of the bush."https://overland.org.au/2019/04/when-ten-years-is-a-full-circle-the-anniversary-of-black-saturday/ …

Lucy Franklyn reflects on memory and trauma on the tenth anniversary of the Black Saturday bushfires in Marysville.https://overland.org.au/2019/04/when-ten-years-is-a-full-circle-the-anniversary-of-black-saturday/ …

'Rather grandly, John Cheever believed short stories were read by "discerning and well-informed men and women who seem to feel that narrative fiction can contribute to our understanding of one another and the sometimes bewildering world around us."'https://overland.org.au/2019/04/the-hurt-we-live-among-reading-zebra-and-other-stories/ …

"The fear among the villagers is that the settlers will return – indeed, they shouted as much as they left." Nadine Littledale on her fear for Battir.https://overland.org.au/2019/04/my-fear-for-battir/ …

Nadine Littledale on a visit to the historic village of Battir and its imperilled future.https://overland.org.au/2019/04/my-fear-for-battir/ …

"Agnès Varda still lives, in cinema." A beautiful remembrance by Eloise Ross (@EloiseLoRoss).https://overland.org.au/2019/04/vale-agnes-varda/ …

'They want to know us and at the same time they want to tell us who we are.' Winnie Dunn on the Pacific muse.https://overland.org.au/2019/04/playing-god-with-our-lives-and-stories-the-stubborn-power-of-the-pacific-muse/ …

'They want to know us and at the same time they want to tell us who we are.' Winnie Dunn on the 'Pacific muse'.https://overland.org.au/2019/04/playing-god-with-our-lives-and-stories-the-stubborn-power-of-the-pacific-muse/ …

A fiery review by Godfrey Moase (@gemoase) of Elizabeth Humphrys' HOW LABOUR BUILT NEOLIBERALISM.https://overland.org.au/2019/04/taking-back-worker-power-elizabeth-humphrys-how-labour-built-neoliberalism/ …