“Wianamattas’ emus are a testament to the importance of caring for even the ordinary parts of our living world—the parts that we take for granted.” As part of our series supported by @copower.bsky.social, Andy Mason goes searching for Sydney’s last “wild” emus

In the final hours of our Subscriberthon, our brilliant co-editors Evelyn and Jonathan have an important message for you. Head to overland.org.au/shop or overland.org.au/donate today.

For the last day of our Subscriberthon we have set aside something *very* special: a gallery of stunning portraits of Palestinian activists by Tia Kasambalis, with an introduction by Tasnim Mahmoud Sammak. Here’s PORTRAITS OF RESISTANCE.

LAST CHANCE! We're wrapping things up over here, which means today is your last chance to win BIG. Today's prize pack is looking pretty gorgeous, and don't forget you're still in the running to win either of our major prizes, too! Head to overland.org.au/shop now to enter!

We have put a lot of effort recently in making available the entire archive of OVERLAND’s 70+ year history. In that spirit, on the penultimate day of Subscriberthon we bring you this previously unpublished interview with historian Humphrey McQueen on state violence and the arming of the police.

Good morning! It's the second-last day of our Subscriberthon, and the prizes don't stop coming. Head to overland.org.au/shop today to support us and go into the draw to win!

“We live in an oligarchy, but with this humidity it feels like a dictatorship.” On Day #5 of Overland’s subscriberthon, we bring you “Force posture agreement”, a new poem by Miroslav Sandev. overland.org.au/2025/11/forc...

On the third last day of our Subscriberthon, the prizes just keep coming - head to overland.org.au/shop today to support us and go into the running to win some amazing prize bundles!

On day #4 of Overland's Subscriberthon, we bring you two reviews of books about Palestine: by Yahia Lababidi on ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS and Norman Saadi Nikro on DAYBREAK IN GAZA.

Subscriberthon Day Four is upon us... today we have a prize pack that's ridiculously good - books, download codes, doubles passes, trinkets, treats, and tea! Head to overland.org.au/shop now to go in the running to win!

Thank you to @zahrastardust.bsky.social for this beautiful review of Love in a F*cked-Up World in @overlandjournal.bsky.social. "Soft and fierce, utopian and practical, inscribed with beauty and strength, Love in a F*cked Up World is both an intervention and a guidebook."

Renewed my subscription to @overlandjournal.bsky.social for another year. Always essential reading. Please subscribe/donate if you can - overland.org.au

I love the perspective shot Sam uses in the final frame of this comic

"We work at the most automated port on planet Earth. Our job description is literally "assisting automation"." On day #3 of Overland's Subscriberthon, we bring you — who else? — the great Sam Wallman.

It's #Noirvember and also the @overlandjournal.bsky.social Subscriberthon! Here's a piece on the joys of themed viewing I wrote for Overland a few years ago, plus a reminder to: watch noir and support great independent publications. overland.org.au/2022/11/noir...

The third day of our Subscriberthon is here! Today we have gifts from Kill Your Darlings, Voiceworks, UQP, and a very generous Readings voucher - plus, every day you go into the running to win a major prize! Head to overland.org.au/shop to subscribe or donate today!

“I say let flesh caress metal. Make it syrupy. They can’t stand up for themselves, I have to lend a hand. Yes, that’s correct, I like that about the job.” On Day #2 of our Subscriberthon, a brilliant new story by Claire Stendell.

Day two of our Subscriberthon is here to ring in November! Thank you so much to everyone who has subscribed or donated so far - your support means the world to us. Head to overland.org.au/shop/ or overland.org.au/donate/ to go in to the running to win our Day Two prize pack!

I’ve got a piece up at @OverlandJournal about Gaza and colonial Australia as part of Subscriberthon. Take out a sub and show your support! overland.org.au/2025/10/stra...

We're back for another annual Subscriberthon! Head to overland.org.au to check out the full list of prizes, and subscribe, renew or donate today to be in the running to win!

“All of this is to say that, in TIANANMEN SQUARE, the past becomes a character in its own right.” Tony McKenna reviews Lai Wen’s new novel.

“At a time when on-screen violence is commonplace and eyes begin to turn shamefully away, only a select few mediums continue to resist desensitisation. Poet Omar Sakr and artist Safdar Ahmed employ two of them.” Nalini Jacob-Roussety reviews THE NIGHTMARE SEQUENCE — supported by @copyright.com.au

“Tamsen Hopkinson’s THE WISHING WELL picks apart the mistranslations in Te Tiriti/the Treaty of Waitangi, to make audible the dangerous mistranslations of our present.” A long, fascinating conversation between Briony Galligan and Rosie Isaac on art, language, history and place.

“Nearly four out of five of Australia’s critical mineral projects sit on Indigenous lands”. For @copower.bsky.social, Noa Wynn examines the Yindjibarndi claim for damages to land and how green colonialism is repeating old injustices.

“But we would do well to remember what broke the power of the original feudalists: peasant uprisings yoked to the workers’ movement.” Ben Brooker reviews Cory Doctorow’s ENSHITTIFICATION.

I loved writing this poem about soft trans-queer resistance, the beauty of T4T love, and the everlasting nature of spirals and gender fuckery. I’m thrilled it’s found a home in Overland 🥰🏳️‍⚧️💖 @overlandjournal.bsky.social overland.org.au/2025/10/spir...

“On any given day we could be spooning in bed archival as ammonite” Our latest #fridaypoem is SPIRALS EXIST IN NATURE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE by Rae White. overland.org.au/2025/10/spir...

“As Gaza became the fulcrum on which an entire world order is poised, our task became more foundational. To speak the truth. To centre the voices and experience of Palestinians.” Marilyn Garson on the challenge of creating new institutions for Jewish anti-Zionism

“The goal of funwashing is to humanise its subjects — but what happens when you attempt to funwash things that weren’t human to begin with?” @martynpedler.com on showing the softer side of killer robots. overland.org.au/2025/10/kill...

“There is nothing further to report at this time. And I remain forever, haunted by maps.” Our brand new #FridayFiction is LANDSCAPE FREAKOUT #3: OUR EARTH IS NOT WHAT WE THINK by Karen A Johnson.

My essay in Overland! In it, I argue that our understanding of students' GenAI use must be situated in the anti-intellectual and anti-youth cultures of our time, which has told them that neither they nor their education matters. (1/2)

We meant to say this essay was generously supported by @copyright.com.au! Not the person we credited by accident.

“We still live in an age where migrant sex workers are portrayed as gullible and weak damsels in distress, rather than struggling, disadvantaged women just playing the cards they have.” Natalie Feliks on Operation Inglenook and its echoes of the ICE raids in the US.

“School is no longer an environment where the active, positive presence of students is encouraged, or where the knowledge gained and labour performed within are valued.” Mark Yin on the context behind the carceral responses to AI cheating.

“Soft and fierce, utopian and practical, inscribed with beauty and strength, LOVE IN A F*CKED UP WORLD is both an intervention and a guidebook, offering real pathways towards a collective, abundant and more radical futures.” Zahra Stardust reviews Dean Spade.

For @copower.bsky.social, a brand new comic by Eav Brennan on South Australia's algal bloom and the “waves of death” threatening our seas.

Thanks @overlandjournal.bsky.social for publishing our letter. overland.org.au/2025/09/stat...

Wow. What an essay by Eli McLean for @overlandjournal.bsky.social : "I had started to feel over the last few months that the ever-watchful eye of the university panopticon was sooner or later going to cast its gaze on our publishing activities"

“I do not need to name all the names of poets doing this in “Australia”, because Australia doesn’t exist.” A brand new, extended essay on geography and poetry by John Kinsella.

“If we’ve learned anything from the recent slew of Zionist attacks on culture in Australia, it’s that institutions — mainly universities — are often a poisoned chalice for writers and editors.” Deputy editor Eli McLean on the closure of MEANJIN.

Sara Cheikh examines the envoy’s report on Islamophobia and finds that it “does not chart a path toward justice simply because it failed to place Australian Muslims’ grievances within the power mechanisms that created them in the first place”.

I wrote about shark nets and a very niche part of Sydney history from the other side of the fence (pun intended) for @overlandjournal.bsky.social

“Historian Bill Gammage’s warning that “fences on the ground make fences in the mind” ring in the ears as shark nets are erected along Australia's coastlines each year.” For @copower.bsky.social, our own Natasha Seymour on Australia’s neverending “shark era”. overland.org.au/2025/09/fenc...

“you know it's about to get gnarly when the lichen is fused with the asphalt” Our latest #fridaypoem is EFFORT by Eliana Gray.

“A name once whispered across the industrial north, Jenny Greenteeth has declined into print, into kitsch.” David Renton on the history of a cautionary creature of folklore, pointing “to the world we have made and could yet unmake.” overland.org.au/2025/09/jenn...

An open letter by GPs for Palestine to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

“Do not be deceived by the ‘humanitarian’ label given to this militarised organisation. All funding to this militant group must be withdrawn and the organisation disbanded.” Amy Neilson on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and aid turning to murder.

“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.

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.