Published 5 November 20111 June 2012 · Main Posts Subscriberthon: The Inevitable Movie II Editorial team It’s the weekend of Subscriberthon, but that doesn’t mean you can’t subscribe – that’s the beauty of the internet! Thank you to all those who’ve subscribed so far and congratulations to yesterday’s Spot Prize winners: John Haycock, Judi Morrison and Jackie Wykes. Your prizes are in the post. We appreciate you all so much that we made a second Subscriberthon movie, one that explains the real reason QEII came to town: Go on – subscribe: you’ll feel like royalty if you do. Already a subscriber? Not a problem, you can simply resubscribe, adding a year to the length of your subscription and making you eligible for all those prizes. Such as today’s Daily Prizes: The Fremantle Press pack Four fab reads from Fremantle Press: Adam Morris, My dog gave me the clap; Collection, The Kid on the Karaoke Stage; Goldie Goldbloom, You Lose These + other stories; Peter Docker, The Waterboys Australian shorts This glorious collection of short story collections by Affirm Press (including a collection by one of Overland’s very own bloggers) is an absolute treat: S – Bob Franklin, Under Stones H – Barry Divola, Nineteen Seventy Something O – Emmett Stinson, Known Unknowns R – Gretchen Shirm, Having cried wolf T – Leah Swann, Bearings S – Irma Gold, Two steps forward Drunkard’s delight 6 bottles of Platypus Gully’s finest. What could be better than a glass of wine, the flickering fire and a good … book? Here’s the low-down on Platypus Gully: made from MV6 and D5V12 vines planted from 1993 to 1996, the win e exhibits typical varietal nose with a deep crimson colour and fresh berry flavours. Coincidentally beautiful black cherries are grown in the region. The grapes were hand picked in March 2006, fermented in stainless steel vats and aged in new French oak for 18 months. It was bottled in January 2008 at 13.0%. Platypus live in a dam in a deep gully 80 ft below the vineyard surrounded by tree ferns and beautiful Blackwood trees. The wine is a full flavoured but easy drinking style and is ideal for accompanying food or for just sipping by the glass. The wine sells for $14 wholesale and $25 retail a bottle and is often seen in restaurants at $40 per bottle. Editorial team More by Editorial team › 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 28 March 20249 April 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. 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.