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Gina Rushton

Editor at Crikey

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

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  • 1 month 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.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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?

  • 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.

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Gina Rushton
Gina Rushton @ginarush
10 Apr 25

An Australian-designed weapon system has been trialled by Israel’s defence force after federal government insists no defence exports there since the Gaza War began. Exclusive from @AndrewBGreene https://t.co/Uddam4hH7I

Gina Rushton
Gina Rushton @ginarush
8 Apr 25

RT @zuza_real: did Scooby and Fred have any scenes together? i feel like they were at best just indifferent towards each other. i'm sorry a…

Gina Rushton
Gina Rushton @ginarush
3 Apr 25

RT @jacobgreber: Peter Dutton and Gina Rinehart fall out over Coalition gas plan, net zero https://t.co/oW5o053gLY via @ABCaustralia