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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Overland - What They Never Told You

Friday essay: Jeff Sparrow on the radical hope of ‘forgotten’ Australian writer Lesbia Harford

Lesbia Venner Harford was a woman who knew she’d die young but became a revolutionary all the same, who loved both women and men with a passion always overwhelming and often unwise, and who wrote exquisitely about the transformations of the modern age: what they meant and what might be…

The Conversation

Bullying or entertainment? Kyle Sandilands argues that fights with Jackie O were ratings gold for Kiis FM

Shock jock claims his bosses had monetised the conduct he was sacked for. Plus: Michael Gawenda v Jeff Sparrow

The Guardian - AU

Meanjin was closed – but new Australian literary journals are springing up around the country

The recent, sudden closure of Meanjin has brought renewed attention to Australian journals: those hardy perennials that support Australian literature year in and year out. While the sector has been suffering for some time, new entrants in Adelaide’s Splinter and First Nations journal Sovereign Texts – and a resurrected Southerly…

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University of Sydney argues academic’s article not racist against Jewish people as ‘Zionism is a political concept’

Case taken by academics against two colleagues and the university is considered a major test case for hate speech in Australia

The Guardian - AU

The Jeep Grand Cherokee Just Got a Huge Price Cut

Some trims are down as much as $4,000 from 2024.

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At a time when journalism needs to be at its strongest, an open letter on the Israel/Hamas war has left the profession diminished

The journalists who signed an open letter to Australian media organisations last week calling for ethical reporting on the war in Gaza have succeeded in intensifying the dispute over whether the coverage has been fair. At the same time, they’ve called their own impartiality into question.

The Conversation

How the parallel lives of two influential editors shaped Australia's literary culture

The cover of Jim Davidson’s Emperors in Lilliput juxtaposes a photograph of Meanjin’s Clem Christesen smoking a pipe with a picture of Overland’s Stephen Murray-Smith lighting his.

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Overland Truck Conversion Is Rugged On The Outside, Luxurious Within

It has an upgraded grille, rocker bars, and other off-road modifications.

Motor1

Car dealer, lender deactivated cars with “kill switch” after borrowers fell behind on payments: lawsuit

The remote “vehicle starter interrupter switch” violates lawsuit claims, seeks class action.

Chicago Sun-Times

Stella Prize won by young First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen for her provocative debut collection Dropbear

For its 10th anniversary, the Stella Prize has been won by young First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen — in the first year that poetry has been eligible.

ABC News

The responsibilities of being: Jessica Au's precise, poetic meditation on mothers and daughters

Jessica Au has been appearing on the Australian literary scene for quite some time now. I first noticed her work in the noughties: short fictions published in Overland and Wet Ink, stories with well-crafted sentences and engaging characters and an aesthetic that leaned toward stillness and dissociation.

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