Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Tasmania First : Ecofascism and the Settler Invasion Fantasy
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'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 been-down-Texas-robbing-a-bank look' but 'strong' like Chris Hemsworth) as he skins up a joint to ask 'Why are we letting paradise get invaded?' The two have just conspired with Astrid's brother, Liberal premier John 'JC' Coleman, to conceal the death of a Chinese worker on a vast suspension bridge being built to connect Bruny Island and its mixture of wealthy holiday shack owners, gastronomes, bespoke hoteliers and artisanal farmers to the Tasmanian mainland—a project bankrolled by the Chinese Communist Party's Belt and Road initiative, waved through at the highest levels of state and federal government. The dead worker is one of hundreds flown in from China, their extra labour necessitated by a terrorist attack that takes out half the bridge just before construction is complete —an attack later revealed as a false flag operation carried out by the Australian secret services.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Overland no. 249 Summer 2023 26017321 2023 periodical issue ''Overlanding', as in droving cattle across country at distance, waxed as a literary trope precisely as it waned as a means of labour. Like its dialectical opposite the Squatter, the Overlander is etymologically multiple, meaning both the drover who is employed and respectable. and the sundowner, who is itinerant and suspect. In the Australian social imaginary, one is elevated to a culture hero and a symbol of belonging, the other indexes the repressed cognisance of the settler as a predatory interloper. One of the innovations of Leah Purcell's adaptations of Lawson's 'The Drover's Wife' demonstrates the coextension of these types. The writing in our latest issue is animated by the problems and revelations of interiority. Elias Greig's illuminating discussion of nativist paranoia in Heather Rose's novel Bruny demonstrates the persistence of perennial settler fantasies of replacement. Through a more intimate lens. EI Clarence's personal essay 'Dovetails' traces the ongoing psychological disconnections wrought by Australian forced adoption policies. The recurrence and recursion of the nominal past is also the subject of Natalia Figueroa Barroso's graceful hybrid essay on linguistic loss and transformation. 'A guide to the colonisation of my mother tongues.' (Publication summary) 
     
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  • Bruny Heather Rose , 2019 single work novel
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