Published 13 May 201427 May 2014 · Main Posts 23 May: Seminar – ‘Who is paying authors what?’ Editorial team Seminar: Who is paying authors what? This panel session will consider the questions from a variety of perspectives, and with a view to further informing and guiding the ASA’s campaign for better pay and conditions for Australia’s authors, be they amateur, semi or fully professional. Wine and refreshments will be provided. With Jacinda Woodhead (Overland), Angelo Loukakis (the ASA), Jock Given (Swinburne University), and chaired by Jeremy Fisher. When: 6:30–10pm, Friday 23 May Where: The Victoria Room, 4th Floor, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, 210 Lonsdale St, Melbourne Cost: Free. RSVP essential. Call the ASA on 1800 257 121 or email events@asauthors.org. 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.
