Rachel Withers

3 weeks ago | artfulparent.com | Rachel Withers

Use watercolor resist techniques to create easy and fun flag art for kids. Perfect for patriotic art projects!Summer is almost here in the United States and we have a few upcoming patriotic holidays that make this the perfect flag art activity. If you live in another country, you can utilize the same techniques but with your flag’s colors!My kids recently finished our watercolor master class and we used a few techniques that were fresh in our heads.

3 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Rachel Withers

In the end, the House was not even a little bit hung. It was mildly embarrassing for me, having spent the past year writing a column about the prospective players in a potential hung parliament. Such a parliament was always going to rely on a close race between the major parties, in which neither could reach a majority. The chances of that narrowed significantly in the final weeks, as it became apparent the Coalition was totally unelectable.

4 weeks 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.