Rachel Withers
Cultural Critic and Writer at Freelance
Contributing Editor at The Monthly
Freelance writer. Bylines @THEMONTHLY @SatPaper @Slate @voxdotcom @crikey_news
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4 days ago |
rachelrwithers.substack.com | Rachel Withers
“Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility — unmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with it — that goes by the cult name of ‘Camp.’”So begins Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp”, which I read in grad school, where I studied criticism — not, as my own critics seem to insist, straight reporting. I did consider straight news.
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6 days ago |
crikey.com.au | Rachel Withers
An evergreen point of clarification: Climate 200 does not select candidates or run independent campaigns. The funding aggregator supports community-nominated indies, trying to ensure donors’ money goes where it’s most effective.
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1 week ago |
crikey.com.au | Rachel Withers
One does, unfortunately, have to hand it to Tim Wilson. The former IPA policy director and most divisive “moderate” in politics — a man banned from editing Wikipedia after trying to remove negative aspects of his own page — never took his eye off the prize (or the wreath), yesterday reclaiming the wealthy seat of Goldstein from independent Zoe Daniel in the first Liberal gain of the election. And he’s already back on the tweets.
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1 week ago |
crikey.com.au | Rachel Withers
The recriminations are underway — recriminations that really should’ve been heeded the last few times. Much of this week’s debate has been taken up by where the Liberal Party went wrong, just like after the last election, and the Aston and Dunkley by-elections, and the Victorian state election, all of which showed the Coalition’s nasty culture-warring wasn’t working for them.
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1 week ago |
crikey.com.au | Rachel Withers
There’s no putting lipstick on this particular pig, although Adam Bandt is certainly trying: Saturday night was a shit one for the Greens. While Labor benefited from an anti-Coalition, anti-Trump surge, the Greens stalled, their ~12% primary falling slightly. The community independents did well, whereas the Greens lost two of their 2022 gains, Brisbane and Griffith, in part due to Liberal voters switching to Labor.
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