Published 21 April 200921 April 2009 · Main Posts discounted joint subscriptions with Meanjin Jeff Sparrow We’re now offering a discounted joint subscription with Meanjin (and hello to ‘Spike’, the new Meanjin blog). Basically, if you subscribe to both mags, the adult rate’s reduced to $110. It’s spectacularly cheap and it clears your conscience for an entire year, since with one click of the mouse you can do your bit to keep alternative literary culture flourishing. In celebration of this momentous event, Baz Luhrmann shot the brief clip below. 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 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.