Elias Greig

Jul 2, 2024 | overland.org.au | Maddison Stoff |Elias Greig

Australia is in the grip of a housing and cost-of-living crisis, especially for welfare recipients or people who subsist on lower incomes. Despite this, the current Labor government refuses to make any meaningful concessions — such as increasing our miserable and insufficient welfare rate, instigating rental caps, or even ending the pointless cruelty of mutual obligations — to the people most affected by economic inequality.

Aug 9, 2023 | overland.org.au | Dan Hogan |Elias Greig

The problem with feudalism is it can’t be solved with capitalism. Unlike capitalists, landlords don’t offer wages to the tenants they exploit to extract rents. Landlords—as is written in their title—are feudalists whose core business is expanding and conserving rental serfdom.

Apr 4, 2023 | overland.org.au | Bonnie Etherington |Elias Greig |Evelyn Araluen |Jonathan Dunk

Elias Greig on ecofascism and the settler invasion fantasy, Natalia Figueroa Barroso on Charrua language and colonisation, the winners of the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and Judith Wright Poetry Prize, new poetry and fiction from Angela Costi, Liam Ferney, Michael Farrell, Ouyang Yu, Tim Loveday and more.

Mar 10, 2023 | theguardian.com | Elias Greig

Some weeks ago, I helped my mother move out of her flat on the outskirts of Bellingen on the New South Wales mid-north coast. We ferried her possessions and remaining furniture down a rickety staircase on to the back of a truck, doing everything we could to make the move from a small place of her own to a room at the back of a friend’s farmhouse feel like a choice.

Feb 26, 2023 | overland.org.au | Elias Greig |Hana Pera Aoake |Ben Brooker

Part way through Bruny, Heather Rose’s first foray into the thriller genre, Dr Astrid Coleman (UN fixer and covert CIA agent, ‘six feet tall and trained to defend myself’, twin sister to the Tasmanian premier, half-sister to the Tasmanian opposition leader, scion of a political dynasty and proud ‘sixth-generation Tasmanian’) turns to her love interest, Dan Macmillan (retired-paratrooper-turned-tradie-turned-works-manager with a Celtic sleeve tattoo, ‘Paul Newman blue’ eyes and ‘a Chris Pine...