Gina Rushton

Editor at Crikey

author, journalist, podcast host (the dilemma), editor (@crikey_news) 🗞️ agent: Rach Crawford @wolfliterary 💌

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Election analyst Antony Green on his most memorable moments ahead of his final ABC broadcast

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Antony Green |Gina Rushton

Antony Green joined the ABC in 1989, after spotting a newspaper ad for a six-month researcher job. He had spent years working as a computer programmer, database designer and analyst and knew how to talk to engineers — and the ABC pounced. From those first six months spouted a four-decade career front hundreds of federal election for the national broadcaster. As he prepares to present his last election night, we take a walk through elections past.
Meta has given in to the global fight against fact-checking. What happens when truth becomes partisan?

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Gina Rushton

Fact checking has been described as cleaning up a sewage spill with a teaspoon. What happens to truth when someone takes the teaspoon away? When Donald Trump fronted his first debate of the US presidential campaign against then-Vice President Kamala Harris, back in September last year, he made what has become a notorious accusation: migrants in a small Ohio town were eating the local pets.
Crikey’s editor says farewell, shares some gossip, and argues why independent media has never been more important

Dec 19, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Gina Rushton

In early 2022 I unblocked Crikey’s political editor Bernard Keane on Twitter. I figured it was only polite before I began editing him. He graciously unblocked me too and neither of us acknowledged it. Little did I know, the first thing that would surprise me at Crikey was that Keane wasn’t the grumpy old bastard I’d expected.
No longer Jonestown? The diminished political power of Alan Jones

Nov 19, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Gina Rushton

It was quite the scene: a scowling, tracksuit-clad Alan Jones being hounded by media as he exited a Sydney police station on Monday, hours after being arrested and charged with 24 offences against eight alleged victims (on Tuesday two more charges were laid and the number of alleged victims rose to nine).
Americans voted for Trump. Many also voted for abortion rights. What happens next?

Nov 6, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Gina Rushton

In a country where a majority of people support legal abortion, American voters have chosen for president a man who bragged about his role in appointing the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v Wade, ending the federal constitutional right to an abortion. CNN’s national exit poll found 28% of people who believe abortion should be legal voted for Donald Trump. So what happened on voting day? And what happens next?
Trump’s gender strategy: If women say no, go for the bros

Nov 3, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Gina Rushton

Donald Trump walked out onto the floor of the Republican National Convention in July to James Brown’s It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World. Pundits have noted that although Kamala Harris has campaigned hard on reproductive rights, she hasn’t mentioned the f-word, wearing “the various aspects of her identity lightly”. Although she would be the nation’s first woman president, she’s avoided Hillary Clinton’s “vote-for-me-to-make-history” strategy.
7 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in November

Oct 16, 2024 | purewow.com | Sarah Stiefvater |Clementine Taylor |Gina Rushton |Nikki Vargas

booksPureWow editors select every item that appears on this page, and the company may earn compensation through affiliate links within the story. All prices are accurate upon date of publish. You can learn more about the affiliate process here. The leaves are finally turning and we’re entering peak put-on-a-chunky-knit-and-curl-up-with-a-good-book season.
Yes, journalists should publicise each others’ mistakes

Oct 10, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Gina Rushton

Journalists are just like you — humans who make mistakes. At a time when they’re under increasing pressure, should reporters be writing about each other’s mistakes? That’s the question our debaters are tossing around in today’s Friday Fight. Arguing in the negative we have shareholder activist and Crikey founder Stephen Mayne, and making the case in the affirmative is Crikey editor Gina Rushton.
Women are dying without safe and legal abortion in the US. But will this shift votes?

Sep 22, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Gina Rushton

“Promise me you’ll take care of my son.”Those were Amber Nicole Thurman’s last words to her own mother. The 28-year-old woman in Georgia died of sepsis after she waited 20 hours at an Atlanta hospital for medical care, as doctors delayed performing a routine procedure she badly needed following an incomplete medication abortion. A report obtained by ProPublica confirmed the death was preventable. Anti-choice rhetoric rarely makes space for reality.
Let's be sceptical of the right-wing culture war on fact-checkers

Apr 8, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Gina Rushton

Apparently debunking Bob Katter’s claim that every Australian child was given a rifle in the aftermath of World War II, or contesting Malcolm Robert’s claim that there are jail cells underneath Parliament House “benefits the left”. Confused? Me too. The Institute of Public Affairs has released a report condemning Australian fact-checking organisations RMIT ABC Fact Check, AAP FactCheck and RMIT FactLab.

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