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2 months ago | 
overland.org.au | Karen Wyld |Scott Robinson |John Kinsella
Shortly after Europeans bumped into the southern continent that they’d been mythicising with fantastical drawings in the large blank section on their maps, fantastical white tales were penned. Centuries later, authors are still writing fiction that mythologises and dehumanises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and too many of these works are being published in Australia and beyond.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
overland.org.au | Scott Robinson
“Can anything be done?”“So much can be done,” I say. “But everything would have to be different.”— Joy Williams, “The Country”Royce Kurmelovs’ Slick: Australia’s Toxic Relationship with Big Oil (UQP, 2024) builds a picture of the influence of oil money in Australian politics that combines the naïve frustration and despairing sense of being cornered evoked by Williams’ dialogue.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
thesun.co.uk | Scott Robinson
LIKE Liam, I became famous in the blink of an eye, and know first-hand how lonely you can feel in a boyband. Within ten days of auditioning for Five, I’d left my family home for a house in Surrey and gave one person, my now-wife Kerry, my phone number. I couldn’t even tell her where I was moving to. That same year, in 1997, our first single Slam Dunk (Da Funk) was in the top 10. Life changed for us instantly. Liam said the only safe place for him was to be locked in his room where there’s a mini-bar.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
overland.org.au | Liam Blackford |Scott Robinson |Jon Piccini
Holden Sheppard’s Invisible Boys — lately in the news for its TV adaptation on Stan — is an imperfect but extremely entertaining novel that deserves its success. I argue that it is a canonically important work of Australian gay literature, a monument of eroticised and anxious masculinity belonging to a legacy including titles such as Christos Tsiolkas’ Loaded and Barracuda, or Tim Winton’s Breath.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
artlink.com.au | Scott Robinson
How not to care about ecology Like an enveloping atmosphere, ecology has become a dominant framework for contemporary art. In parallel, criticism has assumed the task of interpreting and re-interpreting art and its history for the ecological moment. Despite its near-imperialistic tendency to redefine the meaning of art works in ecological terms, the use of ‘ecology’ as a framework often precludes critical analysis rather than invites it.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Scott Robinson |Rob Horning |Sofia Sabbagh
By imagining that our true home is in the wilderness, we forgive ourselves the homes we actually inhabit. William Cronon, ‘The Trouble with Wilderness’In May this year, environmental groups held a sort of vigil on the steps of state parliament for seventy-three birds that they had recovered from recent duck hunting, including eight illegally shot protected and threatened species laid out alongside a bouquet of shotgun cartridges.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Dan Hogan |Scott Robinson
On the 17th of January, 1788, over 1400 people set foot on the soil of Indigenous Australians, and began the process of stealing land. As convicts finished their sentences or were pardoned, they were given land grants. The same convicts who were given land in Australia, would never have owned land in Great Britain. In fact even today, half of the land in England is owned by less than 1 per cent of its population.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
lockportjournal.com | Scott Robinson
As the summer days become shorter and the crisp scent of autumn fills the air, it’s time to prepare for another exciting school year. Students, teachers, and parents alike are faced with decisions and lifestyles that can positively or inversely affect their health. By adopting a series of healthy habits at the start, you can ensure you’re taking positive steps toward physical and mental success. Here are some essential health tips to start your school year off on the right foot. Prioritize sleep.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Scott Robinson |Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn |Lizzie O'Shea
To weep into stones are fables. —Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urne-BuriallCarbon sequestration proposes to reverse the ongoing particulate re-distribution of the air; that is, to turn the world upside down. The increasingly suffocating proportion of carbon in the atmosphere must be withdrawn and re-buried, whether through mineralisation as stones, which do not leak, or in unstably lachrymose carbonaceous deposits like trees and soil.
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Jul 4, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Lily Brett |Amanda Tink |Scott Robinson
Garth’s new trousers had three pleats on either side of the zip. Until now, he had worn skin-tight, pegged legged Levis. Miriam looked at Garth. She found the loose space between his legs alluring. She started to think about what lay behind those parallel pleats. Not since Miriam was seventeen had she felt lustful just looking at a man’s crotch. Out of bed, Miriam rarely felt sexually aroused. She had enough trouble feeling that way in bed. Where were the children? Could they hear?
