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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... no. 159 Winter 2000 of Overland est. 1954 Overland
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Not the M-Word Again : Rhetoric and Silence in Recent Multiculturalism Debates, Wenche Ommundsen , single work essay
Ommundsen examines some of the many uses (and abuses) of the term multiculturalism. She defines several models relating to the way this term operates in popular public discourse. The models, which are sometimes overlapping and sometimes in opposition, include: sentimental multiculturalism, folkloric or touristic multiculturalism, sophisticated cosmopolitanism, cultural preservation and 'ethnic ghettoes', cultural assimilation, reverse racism, politically or economically expedient multiculturalism, and 'the empty signifier,' where multiculturalism becomes 'nothing but a rhetorical gesture...a void, a silence'.
 (p. 5-11)
Of a Class, Enza Gandolfo , single work essay
A meditation on class, on the author's family and their migration to Australia, and on living in Melbourne.
 (p. 18-22)
Welcome to Werribeei"Come on down to Werribee, we've got", Dennis McIntosh , single work poetry (p. 23)
Covering One's Tracks: Desert Roads from Memory to Fable, Abbas El-Zein , single work criticism (p. 24-28)
The Chinese Poet's Visit, John Mateer , single work biography (p. 29-33)
Untitled (from Poems of Chance)i"I've kinned a younger version of the Generation X", Philip Salom , single work poetry (p. 34)
Untitledi"So: always liked those Chinese Poets", single work poetry (p. 34)
Untitledi"My voice bellowing and yours high, duets", single work poetry (p. 34)
Untitled (from poems of Chance)i"With their door-to-door religion and shiny bikes,", Philip Salom , single work poetry (p. 35)
Contemporary Australian Poetry: a prejudiced biased account, Lee Cataldi , single work criticism (p. 36-40)
Americai"The thing that worries me most", TT. O , single work autobiography poetry (p. 41-49)
Working Class Heroes? Les Murray vs Pi O, Sarah Attfield , single work criticism (p. 50-54)
Hotel Martello, Jefferson Kinsman , single work short story (p. 55-58)
The Semi-Detached Man, Kieran Galvin , single work short story (p. 59-62)
Keys, Maria Zajkowski , single work short story (p. 63)
What Can the Reader Do?, Thea Calzoni , single work criticism (p. 69-75)
Barbara's Storyi"I liked the women I worked with", Barbara Bromley , Alan Hocking , Chris Sadler , Eric Roberts , Kevin Vaughan , Rhonda Wilkinson , single work poetry (p. 78)
Before My Dad's Back Got Hurti"We used to go places, but now we hardly ever go", Kim Kropp , single work poetry (p. 78)
Work Care Clipsi"I who once roared as loud as the lion", Dianne Wiggett , single work poetry (p. 80)
Trauma Shocki"A sudden horrific shock", Angela Bove , single work poetry (p. 83)
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