Progressive culture since 1954
I feel so grateful to the Bulldog Pride crew for putting on an event that actually made me feel proud to be part of the LGBTIQ community, where I didn’t leave feeling vaguely morally compromised at the end with a pocket full of junky corporate giveaways.
The astounding Bougainville vote for independence in November 2019 would not have come as a surprise to anyone who knows anything about Bougainville’s history with PNG and their colonial master, Australia, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Winner of the 2019 Fair Australia Prize – Cartoon, Adam Adelpour, on the 1969 general strike and work of Clarrie O’Shea.
As Aboriginal people, we’ve been fighting the capitalist, colonial system that created this crisis for over 200 years. Forgive me if I find your brand of hope a little hard to swallow.
On Saturday 28th of February, the Department of Homo Affairs detected and intercepted an UNAUTHORISED ENTRY at the 42nd Mardi Gras Parade. We are happy to report that the Liberal Party of NSW float was successfully turned back and will not make Mardi Gras their home.
Overland and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are thrilled to announce the entries that placed in the Overland 2019 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize! This year’s star judges, Hannah Kent, Joshua Mostafa and Margo Lanagan, rose to the challenging task of selecting a shortlist of eight pieces from over 450 entries, before narrowing the shortlist down to three exceptional stories.
Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize seeks outstanding poetry from new and emerging writers. This year’s wonderful judges, Ellen van Neerven, Michael Farrell and Toby Fitch (who is also Overland’s poetry editor), read over 750 entries before selecting a shortlist of just nine outstanding works.
Crashed is a history of how financial markets took precedence over people, and moreover, how a profoundly anti-democratic politics prevailed.
The images of working people fighting each other over toilet paper shouldn’t fill you with feelings of contempt or superiority because you’re not ‘stooping’ to that.
When the public hearings for the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug ‘Ice’ began in May this year, my brother Mitchell had just been released from prison for the eighth time.
dear Quang,
don’t forget you
are already here,