Claire Connelly

Oxford

Researcher and Journalist at Freelance

Freelance researcher and journalist focused on economics and policy. Views strictly my own. Wash your hands. Bylines @SatPaper, @TheMonthly, @Crikey_News

Articles

REEL WOMEN Celebrates: Claire Connelly, Producer

2 weeks ago | reelchicago.com | Claire Connelly |Barbara Roche

Editor’s Note: Supporting women should not be limited to a month. So, at Reel Chicago, we have decided to amplify and promote dynamic women’s voices all year long. Today, let us introduce you to Abelson Taylor Producer, Claire Connelly. Claire Connelly is a Southern transplant to Chicago, where she’s made her home for the past 25 years.
Getting sense from the RBA on monetary policy is like pulling teeth

Nov 27, 2023 | crikey.com.au | Claire Connelly

The RBA governor’s speech to the Australian Business Economists annual dinner last week was a canny exercise in misdirection, focusing on the rising price of dental visits, haircuts, sporting and other recreational activities while omitting key facts about the sources of inflation that have resulted in a dramatic fall in Australian living standards.
Labor's referendum position is completely at odds with its stance on Gaza

Oct 15, 2023 | crikey.com.au | Claire Connelly

In October 2022, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong released a statement reversing the Morrison government’s Trumpian recognition of West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Submission: Money and Power in Victorian Elections

Sep 26, 2023 | australiainstitute.org.au | Claire Connelly

In 2018, the Victorian Parliament made major changes to electoral law in the state, including introducing real-time disclosure of donation, banning foreign donations and limiting anonymous donations. Two of the changes with the most serious ramifications are the imposition of a donation cap (around $4,000 each four-year electoral cycle) and a dramatic increase in public funding. This submission focuses on the effects of the 2018 changes on political influence and power.
The anti-trans group that defeated Big W

Jul 28, 2023 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Claire Connelly

The harassment of staff that forced Big W to pull the sex education book Welcome to Sex gained momentum following a social media campaign led by a conservative women’s think tank whose members have propagated unfounded theories about wi-fi and campaigned against abortion and transgender rights. Largely unknown until now, Women’s Forum Australia is an organisation with links to religious groups and conservative politics.
‘You never know who you might meet’

Jul 27, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Kate Grenville |Judith Brett |Melissa Lucashenko |Claire Connelly

I was a shy teenager and Mum had to propel me out the door to the few social opportunities my 1960s milieu offered. When she said “But you never know who you might meet”, of course, being a teenager, I rolled my eyes. It might be a banal line, but it’s served me well. For a start, it’s how I met the man I married, the father of my children, the good companion of happy years. Instead of saying no when a man I definitely didn’t want invited me to a book launch, I said yes.
Aaron Peters and Stuart Vokes’ ‘Migrations from Memory’

Jul 27, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | David Neustein |Judith Brett |Melissa Lucashenko |Claire Connelly

“Learning from the existing landscape is a way of being revolutionary for an architect,” wrote Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi (with Steven Izenour) in their seminal 1972 book Learning from Las Vegas. While other American architects had their eyes set on the exotic piazzas and palazzos of Europe, Scott Brown and Venturi chose to sift through the kitsch of the Vegas Strip for ideas relevant to an era of billboards, highways and urban sprawl.
Marie Darrieussecq’s ‘Sleepless’

Jul 27, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Rebecca Harkins-Cross |Judith Brett |Melissa Lucashenko |Claire Connelly

In French author Marie Darrieussecq’s Sleepless (Text Publishing; translated by Penny Hueston), her latest nonfiction book in a twentyfold oeuvre of predominantly fiction, she bisects the human animal into “those who can sleep and those who can’t”. As with Susan Sontag’s “dual citizenship”, describing our mortal birthright upon kingdoms of illness and health, a passport to insomniac territories may be thrust into one’s hands without warning.
Close encounters of the shared kind: ‘Past Lives’

Jul 27, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Shane Danielsen |Judith Brett |Melissa Lucashenko |Claire Connelly

Korean debut filmmaker Celine Song’s elegant three-part love story embraces the Buddhist idea of encounters over many incarnations Three people sit at a bar: two men and a woman. Two of them are Korean; the other – one of the men – is not. The way they’re talking suggests familiarity, but they’re too far away (from the camera, and our fixed point of view) to make out their words; the exact nature of their relationship, therefore, remains ambiguous. Are they friends? Work colleagues?
Terror Australis: The rise of Australian horror

Jul 27, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Harry Windsor |Judith Brett |Melissa Lucashenko |Claire Connelly

Horror’s low budgets and broad church have seen a group of local filmmakers gain Hollywood’s attention Lucy Campbell was nervous. In March, the South Australian screenwriter had travelled to Austin, Texas. Her debut feature was playing at South by Southwest (SXSW), the music and film festival that has launched careers as well as Oscar winners such as Everything Everywhere All at Once. Watching her film with an audience, she tells me, she saw it with fresh eyes.