gina rushton
journalist, author etc
- Reposted by gina rushtonReally nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
- Reposted by gina rushton🔥 scoop 🔥 from @keanebernard.bsky.social: travelled overseas? your biometric data + potentially everything from your Medicare card to your drivers licence is being handed to US agencies like ICE
- Exclusive | The Albanese government is handing access to Australians’ biometric data and ID documents to US agencies like ICE, and not telling anyone. @keanebernard.bsky.social reports.
- Reposted by gina rushtoni don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
- "Writing this piece is a losing game. In order to criticize the Free Press’ failures, I have to do something they refuse to do with so many of the subjects they write about: I have to be interested in them." open.substack.com/pub/internet...
- The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by gina rushtonThe head of Trump DOJ's Civil Rights Division boosts prediction markets placing 36% odds she'll be able to prosecute Don Lemon for his journalism, after a federal magistrate judge found no probable cause of a crime.
- Reposted by gina rushtonICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
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- Reposted by gina rushtonoh it's going to be a Recession recession
- Reposted by gina rushtonBREAKING: We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing People have had seizures. They passed out. “I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished www.propublica.org/article/vide...
- Federal Liberals are discovering the price of having been so brazen in their politicisation of the Bondi terror attack and many appear to have buyers' remorse. Analysis from Clare Armstrong: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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- Has anyone tried Eyeball? Or any good alternatives to Pocket?
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- Fifty years after schoolgirl Eloise Worledge disappeared, could new leads solve one of Australia’s most haunting cold cases? Read Maddison Connaughton's long read: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
- "For years, this is what our authoritarianism has looked like: not autocratic socialism, but the worst kind of primitive capitalism. In Venezuela, we have long faced a brutal paradox: an absent yet omnipotent state. It is everywhere and nowhere." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...
- What should you be watching in 2026? Here's what the ABC's foreign correspondents think: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... And our political journalists: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... And our economics writers: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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- I declined to participate in this but I'm thrilled my recent long read is recommended in here! You can read it here: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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- Incredible episode with Perry Duffin, best crime reporter in the country, recounting arriving on the scene at the Bondi massacre after his friend was shot. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
- "Yes, the population has increased at the same time but there is now a larger number of guns in the community per capita than in the aftermath of Port Arthur, with at least 2,000 new firearms lawfully entering the community every week." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Missed this story but v concerning. "The instructional document, circulated among the state’s leading barristers and obtained by this masthead, provides advice on the best time to apply for a gag order and exactly what to ask psychiatrists to include in reports."
- Reposted by gina rushtonWe are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more. This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4
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- Favourite list every year! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
- Incredible. Pro-teen social media ban group 36 Months was selling sponsorship to a United Nations event run by the Australian government with the promise of “influence” and “access” to heads of states, according to a leaked document. www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/3...
- A lot to be anxious about but to confirm my own biases... I agree scoops are in/explainers are out. The prediction that sports media "gets tougher on gambling" doesn't stick in Australia but will be keen to see what happens in the US in the wake of the NBA scandal www.niemanlab.org/collection/p...
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- ICYMI: such a great story. Best tech reporter in the country by a mile!
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- "Comment after comment from members of the C-suite around the world (and even a best-selling author on the subject of workplace burnout) berated me for my leadership style and my apparently insufficient knowledge of Italian-American actors." www.capitalbrief.com/article/i-bu...
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- Good morning! Read my story.
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- Reposted by gina rushtonThe findings are significant not just because of how much the trial reduced domestic violence, but because only a few years ago it drew fierce criticism from women's advocates and politicians.
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- Siale noooo
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- “Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the prime minister's office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.” Worth reading Steve Cannane’s analysis today. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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- Google might be killing the open web, completely ruining most media outlets' chances at survival and making sure no one finds our journalism but I gotta say... Chrome's new split tab thing is so useful as an editor
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- Reposted by gina rushtonLmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
- "A world of creativity without craft". www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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- "News sites are the canaries in the coalmine. This is about the biggest change to the web in 20 years, one that will affect how you access information and what you read and watch." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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- "I wish I had told you, before our dinners grew cold, that one day I would speak loudly. Not to wound, but because not speaking would betray everything I was taught to honour. Because for me, love is not blind loyalty – to an ideology, a state or even a community" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Reposted by gina rushtonScoop: OpenAI has signed its first ever Australia government contract, quietly inking a deal with Treasury amid the ChatGPT-maker's charm offensive on policymakers. This modest contract is an ideal foothold into future, more lucrative deals, according to one firm's analysis. www.crikey.com.au/20...
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- "Dalton’s fourth novel is a wife-guy manifesto, an uxorious fable. It’s bleakly retrograde: women as redeemers; men as awestruck limpets; love as an unyielding grip." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
- Wrote about anxiety about the creep of artificial intelligence into the courts and concerns that the use of these tools could erode Australia’s core judicial values
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- RIP Chad Profitz (who was deactivated after posting too close to the sun). Will love you 4eva. www.capitalbrief.com/article/meet...
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- From premiers to pariahs, the predominantly Indigenous side was expelled from the league after just one season. The video footage that condemned them remained hidden for decades: until now. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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- Oi!
- Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide in Gaza, according to the "most authoritative assessment" to date. The inquiry's report follows a two-year investigation and builds on a growing number of assessments labelling Israel's actions as genocide. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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- A five-month investigation has identified six people shot by Israeli snipers on 22 November 2023, revealing how a family from Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood was torn apart in a few hours by men who grew up in Naperville, Illinois and Munich, Germany. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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- “When people talk about cultural vandalism and the insult to the legacy of Meanjin, I think they mean the decision to close the journal severs a connection to this history, to the possibility of a cultural nationalism that isn’t defined by racism & imperial fealty” www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...
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- Love love love this!
- "Those lofty words aged like milk this week as Albanese's government revealed its plans to water down Australia's transparency laws and make secrets easier to keep" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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- This story is absolutely horrific. www.wired.com/story/the-ba...
- This sucks!!!
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