Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 199 Winter 2010 · Main Posts Issue 199 Rjurik Davidson Contents Regulars Rjurik Davidson − Editorial Correspondence Towards 200: Sean Scalmer and Jackie Dickenson − The march of the insider CAL—Art and Life: Zanny Begg − I don’t know much about revolution but I know what I like * Meanland: Emmett Stinson − The pirate code Essays Cate Kennedy − Driven to distraction Michael Hyde − Getting out of the boat Tad Tietze − The Greens, the crisis and the Left Thomas Caldwell − Some of the finest films Seb Prowse − Political treasures Andrew McCann − The eventfulness of Roberto Bolaño John McLaren − The forest and its undergrowth Maxine Clarke − White Australia has a blackface history (online only) Barry Scott − Giving writers a voice (online only) Poetry Prize Keri Glastonbury − Networked communities Derek Motion − forest hill Duncan Hose − SOUTHWEST | lyrebird Fiction Carmel Bird − Waiting for the green man A S Patric − Beckett & Son Reviews Pam Brown − Villain, Views of the Hudson, Beautiful Waste, Wimmera Tom Clark − Bendable Learnings Poetry Cameron Fuller − There’s a bomb on this train of thought Sue Watson − Brush turkey’s J K Murphy − Valley gutter John Kinsella − Resurrection Plants at Nookaminnie Rock π.o. − Gerry Gee / Ron Blaskett Adam Ford − Salt Josephine Rowe − The Man Who Shot Lions Amanda Surrey − the great ocean road Cover Zanny Begg Rjurik Davidson Rjurik Davidson is a writer, editor and speaker. Rjurik’s novel, The Stars Askew was released in 2016. Rjurik is a former associate editor of Overland magazine. He can be found at rjurik.com and tweets as @rjurikdavidson. More by Rjurik Davidson › 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.