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. In fact, it was immediately apparent he was an editor’s dream — prolific (pitching and producing two entirely original pieces within a few hours each morning),...| 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?Voters in 10 states cast ballots on abortion measures and the majority...| 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. Unless you’re a psychopath, and some journalists certainly are, every time you publish...| 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. For medical professionals, the thr...| Gina Rushton
If you like this article, share it with your friends.When one of Australia’s most popular political columns changed hands late last year, few could have predicted it would unravel so quickly in a situation insiders describe as “shambolic”. Within a few months, its star writer spectacularly quit, while her salary, and those of two other senior staff members, remains unpaid by progressive media mogul Piers Grove’s company General Publishing. In late 2023, The Politics was one of Schwar...| 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. The right-wing think tank’s analysis of fact-checks published between January 20...| Gina Rushton
“Babies are life, babies are adventure, babies are the future, babies are brothers and sisters for other babies.” — Greg Sheridan, The Australian, November 21, 2023 Like many good conservatives, The Australian’s foreign editor loves babies and is distressed that Australians are having fewer of them. In his column last week titled “We need babies more than we do migrants”, Greg Sheridan fretted about Australia’s fertility rate in which the number of babies per woman has been dwin...| Gina Rushton
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