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'In today's episode, Johanna Leggatt speaks to ABR Editor Peter Rose about growing disquiet about ‘cancel culture’, censorious voices on social media, and Twitter's threat to writers and journalists. Beginning with the recent case of Rachel Baxendale, a journalist at The Australian, who was subjected to much invective because of her persistent questions about the quarantine fiasco in Victoria, Leggatt laments the ‘routine trashing of reputations on Twitter’ and wonders why Twitter has ‘devolved into a channel for our most juvenile emotions’. This interview is based on her recent article, 'The Problem of Belonging'.'

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    • Southbank, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Australian Book Review, Inc. , 2020 .
      Extent: 25 min 29 secsp.
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      • Posted 07 October 2020
      Series: y separately published work icon The ABR Podcast Southbank : Australian Book Review, Inc. , 2020- 18599027 2020 series - publisher podcast The ABR Podcast is produced by ABR (Australian Book Review). The podcast features book reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews and commentary. Number in series: 37
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The Problem of Belonging : The Twitter Mob Is a Threat to Writers and Journalists Johanna Leggatt , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 425 2020; (p. 18-20)

'In early August, deep in the winter of Melbourne’s stage-four discontent, journalist Rachel Baxendale became the story. The Victorian political reporter for The Australian newspaper was attacked online for questioning Premier Daniel Andrews on his government’s hotel quarantine program, as an explosion of new coronavirus infections caused unprecedented economic shutdown and the curtailment of civil liberties. As thousands of people watched the premier’s live press briefings from their living rooms, Baxendale assiduously probed Andrews about the use of security guards instead of Australian Defence Force personnel to guard returned travellers.' (Introduction)
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