Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 198 Autumn 2010 · Main Posts Issue 198 Jeff Sparrow Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Correspondence Essays Mungo MacCallum − Rudd and the boat people Meanland: Margaret Simons − Reading in an age of change Towards 200: Raewyn Connell − Bread and waratahs Lizzie O’Shea − Letters from death row CAL—Art and life: Simon Sellars − Hiding in plain sight * Brian Walters − Justice on trial Kevin Foster − Embedding control Michael Brull − But what about Zionism? Fiction Miriam Sved − Best and fairest Phillip Tang − Bits Tim Richards − Dog’s life Reviews Kerry Leves − The Children of Leonidas James Ley − A healthy diversity Vane Lindesay − Comic Commentators (web only) Poetry Duncan Hose − settler’s mess Michael Farrell − wide open road Anna Ryan-Punch − Differential Threshold Ryan Scott − Disquisition on Home Stuart Cooke − Your Sea Kevin Gillam − instructions mislaid Kate White − RE: Total inexactitude Matthew Hall − Set Maysoon Elnigoumi − A souqi Rebecca Giggs − The Easement Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a Walkley Award-winning writer, broadcaster and former editor of Overland. More by Jeff Sparrow › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 28 March 202428 March 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. First published in Overland Issue 228 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.