Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 200 Spring 2010 · Main Posts Issue 200 Jeff Sparrow Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Correspondence CAL—Art and Life: Bruce Mutard − Nine o’clock finish * Meanland: Jenny Lee − Publishers at the floodgates Essays Chris Graham − Telling whites what they want to hear Michelle Carmody − Beauty without borders Anwyn Crawford − Permanent daylight Jacinda Woodhead − Hip-hop in the Wild West Marion Rankine − Sometimes it takes a writer Alison Croggon − How Australian is it? Clive Hamilton − Appeasing climate denial at the ABC Ben Eltham − Culture is bigger than the arts Boris Kelly − Killing the worm in ourselves Jenny Lee − Meanland essay: Publishers at the floodgates Rjurik Davidson − Liberated zone or pure commodification? Fiction Christos Tsiolkas − Rococo Karen Hitchcock − Forging friendship Janette Turner Hospital − Weird people Poetry Derek Motion − introduction Adam Ford, Zenobia Frost, Rebecca Giggs, Susan Hampton, Stu Hatton, Kelly-lee Hickey, Hal Judge, Dan Lee, Carly-Jay Metcalf, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Derek Motion, Ella O’Keefe, David Prater, Jaya Savige, Bel Schenk, Andrew Slattery, Amelia Walker, Louise Waller, Benny Walter, Fiona Wright − Before elapsing Review Simone Hughes – The City’s Outback (online only) Cover Sally Orpin and Robert Brailsford 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.