Rachel Withers is a Melbourne-based writer and commentator who spends an unfortunate amount of her time thinking about politics and how it is reported on.
Rachel has freelanced for Slate, Vox, Crikey, The Saturday Paper and The Monthly, and previously spent three years writing the latter's daily newsletter, The Politics, offering in-depth analysis of the day’s events. In 2021 she was awarded Mumbrella’s “Columnist of the Year” award for providing bold new perspectives on the assault and harassment allegations that rocked federal parliament.
Are the teals, representing some of the nation’s wealthiest electorates, our best hope for addressing inequality?
A short history of the Coalition’s ‘women problem’
Scott Morrison sure is throwing a lot of stones
The Australian government knew this fire season was coming—sooner rather than later.
Shame and apology is not enough in confronting our country’s virulent racism.
How a nation got trolled into publicizing its own war crimes.
Australia gets to the bottom of a 45-year-old political mystery.
Like 99 percent of users, I wasn’t wearing a helmet.