Giovanni Tiso

Trying really hard not to make a comic about critical minerals - Overland literary journal I'm trying really hard not to make a comic about critical minerals. 'Cos I know, my mum tells me, "it just doesn't resonate". Unless it's a personal story, critical minerals seem too far removed from ...

In our latest piece for @copower.bsky.social, the wonderful Sofia Sabbagh tries really hard, and ultimately fails, not to make a comic about critical minerals.

We are excited to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Head here to read more about the authors! overland.org.au/2026/03/anno...

We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Head here to learn more about the poets! overland.org.au/2026/03/anno...

Mr Luxon and Ms Willis will not make it to the election, but it hardly matters when the doctrine of “do nothing, ever” is bipartisan.

Labour politicians are so fucking WEAK. Little released a sadface "look how misogynistically Tory Whanau was treated" quote and no sooner he took office that he elevated Ray Chung.

Ben McNulty posts: "Perfect day to sit outside and take in the beauty of the harbour. Certified [and then an acronym for the always mortifying bit for Wellington not being beaten on a good day]". This over a picture of the harbour.

Our snowflake deputy mayor blocked me over it but hey look, a screenshot

Posted while literally slashing the city's climate budget. You can't make this shit up.

Deeply embarrassing for this once sort-of-okay city.

I can't prove it, but I think it's what happened to young Chaplin

Nazis travelling back in time to stick Hitler moustaches on babies that aren't Hitler.

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Between past and possibility: Ernest Thalayasingham MacIntyre (1934 – 2025) - Overland literary journal Reading Australia from Lanka and Lanka from Australia, MacIntyre is an artist who made new cultural and social landscapes visible — spaces that Lankan Australians might take as a springboard for our o...

“Reading Australia from Lanka and Lanka from Australia, MacIntyre is an artist who made new cultural and social landscapes visible.”

Suvendrini Perera remembers the playwright Ernest Thalayasingham MacIntyre, who died in December at the age of 91.

"War can be good for your KiwiSaver, but are you OK with that?"

Top news on RNZ right now is a notch above "how will the war in the Middle East affect your mortgage". Or even on a par.

I get the feeling their combined income is not a number I can pronounce.

Now THIS is where I would like to exercise a 'move on' order.

Headline on the Post, which has to be the most tone-deaf local newspaper in the whole of Christendom: "'Our house value is down $250,000 but we want to sell': A Wellingtonian's plea for help"

You've got to be fucking kidding me.

In which case there's even less need to misrepresent was her thing was about. But yes, she did have a rather hard time explaining to the house how she had managed to do it *a second time*.

Listen I'm with you that media should let it go but all the same what Curran did was not just "use her personal email". Come on now. There's a reason Carol Hirschfeld resigned and it's not because the minister had failed to use the proper email address to contact her.

Mine came through a bad phone line and so I'm Employee of the Aunt.

Another vote for Margot

man I cannot tell you how unhappy mastodon made me, culturally

those people are fucking MISERABLE

there were individuals I liked but collectively it was like mainlining the Linux kernel mailing list plus the “funny” slashdot post comments

All Naomis are bad now.

Too sick, too hard - Overland literary journal In January 2020 as the Commissioner to the historic Victorian Royal Commission into the Mental Health System was working away, I was sitting inside the padded seclusion room of the psychiatric ward at...

“I write in the hope that the psych ward I do visit next, if that unfortunate day comes, is a reformed one, a changed one and one that treats its patients with a level of dignity and respect not always seen in the past.”

Jarni Blakkarly on the broken promises of mental health reform.

Stuff is a black mirror on which nothing can reflect, poorly or otherwise. Surely.

You may just have to fill this grievous gap yourself.

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters have released a joint statement condemning "in the strongest terms" Iran's "indiscriminate" retaliatory attacks on Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan, but not condemning the illegal 'pre-emptive' strikes on Iran that occurred in the midst of peace negotiations and which have been CONDEMNED BY THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL "We cannot risk further regional escalation, and civilian life must be protected." "New Zealand has consistently condemned Iran's nuclear programme, its destabilising activities in the region and elsewhere, and its repression of its own people," the statement read. "Iran has, for decades, defied the will and expectations of the international community. The legitimacy of a government rests on the support of its people. The Iranian regime has long since lost that support. "In this context, we acknowledge that the actions taken overnight by the US and Israel were designed to prevent Iran from continuing to threaten international peace and security," the statement said. The pair called for negotiations to continue and expressed hope the military escalation in the Mideast, described as a "crisis", "ends as quickly as possible".

Shame, shame, puppy shame, all the donkeys know our name

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

It's not a question, it's a slur.