I wrote about Te Waka Hourua's Te Papa action and the radical possibilities of erasure poetry for Overland Journal (thank you Giovanni Tiso!)

In our latest featured article sponsored by CoPower, Toyah Webb reflects on the redaction of a display of the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi by activist group Te Waka Hourua, and on the poetics of erasure. | 'Ration the Queen's veges'

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Teachers should strive to resist government-funded mystification about Australia’s role in wars and promote a fuller understanding of the history of the Anzacs, argue Bill Abrahams and Lucy Honan of Teachers and School Staff for Palestine.
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'To read politics in videogames is to learn to read necropolitically, which is why gamers don’t like politics.'

A formidable essay by Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne on death, gaming and DARKEST DUNGEON 2. overland.org.au/2024/04/game-d…

‘How the government formed the view that the way to repair teacher shortages and declining enrolments in public schools was to give teachers less time and fewer resources to do their job boggles the mind.’ On NSW Labor and schools ⁦Overland Journal⁩ overland.org.au/2024/04/a-jell…

Thousands out against the genocide.

Naarm/Melbourne stands by Gaza for an end to the killing and for liberation.

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Six months and 75 years. Long live Palestine.

Naarm comes out again in solidarity with Palestine, with Gaza, with Palestinian liberation. From the river to sea, Palestine will be free.

‘But of course the Labor Party of the twenty-first century is a case study in jellyfish politics: a spineless blob adrift in a sea of spineless blobs…’ 🤌🏽

“The overfunding of private schools using public money is a symptom of a public service that has been rotted for a quarter of century by a political class with no vision beyond producing dubious, misleading statistics to deploy at the next election.”

Really good read

This Friday's moving microfiction. STILTED

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“Something is off. I look – closely. At the machines. Tangle of wires. A mess. A monster. Heart rate low. Then.”

From our latest #Fridayfiction story, STILTED by J.E Mahal Cuya. overland.org.au/2024/04/stilte…

Now with reply from the NSW department of education.

'A private school that receives public money is not a private school: it is a fee-paying public school.'

packet of chips on NSW's jellyfish government and privatisation-by-neglect.
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“There are many roads leading to political activism but, for some types of people at least, punk is certainly the most appealing.”

Dina Indrasafitri on growing up punk and girl in Indonesia. overland.org.au/2024/04/from-t…

My poem 'Dido' is up on the Overland website. Awful memories of an English high school, late 1960s. overland.org.au/2024/04/dido/

Week 27. Palestine will be free. Free from genocide. Free from famine. Free from apartheid. Free from occupation. Free from the cages of arbitrary detention. Free from besiegement. Long live Palestine 🇵🇸🍉🍓

This piece by Sarah Schwartz in Overland Journal is exceptional. Each paragraph prosecutes a devastating case against our 'justice' system. It is an excellent exposition of why prisoners' health (esp First Nations) fare so badly in this system.

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On solidarity with Gazans overland.org.au/2018/04/on-sol… via @overlandjournal