Gina Rushton

ABC News • 12th July 2025

YIMBYs vs NIMBYs in the battle for your backyard

The Yes In My Backyard movement is lobbying for denser cities and more housing in places people want to work and live and YIMBYs want these homes built yesterday. But the NIMBYs haven't given up yet.On a cold June night in Sydney's eastern suburbs...

ABC News • 15th March 2025

Trump told the 'lie of the year' in 2024. Now fewer people are keeping watch

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...

Crikey • 19th July 2024

‘He just moves on’: Australia’s most prolific progressive media investor has left a trail of chaos behind him

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...

The West Australian • 19th September 2020

The smirking ‘psychologist’ who might change WA law

Victims speak out about Tyson Vacher, the Perth man accused of being a fake psychologist.

The Monthly • 1st August 2020

Doula by choice

Late on a Wednesday night in April before Queensland’s coronavirus restrictions had eased, Brisbane grandmother Jo Bolger answered her phone and inadvertently became Australia’s first practising abortion doula. The next morning, she packed her hand...

The Monthly • 1st November 2021

Lockdown loaves and hampers

Rosanna Barbero passes a woman weighing raisins, then skirts around a pallet of Vegemite jars to enter a cavernous hall where a chain of volunteers is pushing hampers along tables – adding flour, vegetables and sanitiser wipes. The head of Addison...

Buzzfeed • 18th October 2019

This Feminist Group Was Meant To Lead Australia's #MeToo Movement. It's Barely Delivered Anything.

NOW was the Australian version of Time’s Up, the organisation started by Hollywood celebrities in January 2018 that has raised more than $22 million for its legal defence fund, and connected thousands of men and women to lawyers. But in its first 18...

Buzzfeed • 12th November 2019

The Identities Of Rape And Assault Survivors Were Accidentally Revealed In A #MeToo Documentary

Australia’s public broadcaster has been forced to apologise after it distributed to journalists a documentary about the #MeToo movement that identified survivors of rape and assault without their consent. The names, images and harrowing stories of...

The Sydney Morning Herald • 16th July 2021

Medical minefield: the murky world of Instagram advertising

The chief financial officer of Facebook, which owns Instagram, has said the rise in ad revenue during the second quarter of 2020 was primarily driven by small and medium-sized businesses. “In the last year, Instagram has radically pushed into pitching...

The Saturday Paper • 30th May 2020

Temporary visa holders at risk

“I think of it as a Choose Your Own Adventure book where every door is locked,” says Diana Sayed, chief executive of the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights. She describes the path offered to women in Australia on temporary visas who...

Buzzfeed • 3rd February 2019

The Australian Government Argued A Refugee Couldn’t Come To Australia For An Abortion Because Of The Size Of Her Vaginal Opening

Peter Dutton’s lawyers argued a pregnant refugee on Nauru with “extreme” genital mutilation who wanted an abortion didn’t need to be brought to Australia for the procedure. The lawyers said that because the woman's vagina had been unstitched, she...

Harper's Bazaar Arabia • 20th July 2022

When Is The Right Time To Freeze Your Eggs?

A woman sent an innocuous tweet from the frustration and isolation of the pandemic lockdown. “As a 35-year-old single woman who would like to have a family one day, these months dictate whether or not that can happen for me,” the July 2021 post...

Buzzfeed • 20th February 2020

Women In Cambodia Are Using Facebook Messenger To Access Abortions And Sexual Health Advice

J, who lives in Cambodia’s southern province of Takeo, wasn’t sure who to turn to for advice on her unplanned pregnancy. She couldn’t afford to have another child, and knew she wanted an abortion. “I felt afraid to discuss it with my family but I told...

Crikey • 12th July 2020

Lockdown pregnancies creating a 'shadow pandemic' of complications

Reproductive health and abortion providers say they are preparing for a 'shadow pandemic' following a wave of unintended pregnancies during the world's lockdowns. A heavily pregnant 19-year-old with high blood pressure lost her baby and went...

ABC News • 31st October 2017

Doctor accuses Border Force of exerting political influence on Nauru

Dr Martin is the most senior official deployed on Nauru to speak publicly about Australia's offshore detention regime. His allegations are backed by an extensive cache of leaked documents obtained as part of a joint investigation between 7.30 and...

Crikey • 7th July 2020

The government has improved abortion access during the pandemic. Doctors are fighting to keep it that way

To help women safely access abortion services via telehealth, the government would need only to keep doing what services say it has been for decades: nothing. In March the government introduced temporary Medicare rebates for telehealth appointments...

Buzzfeed • 1st May 2020

South Australia Is Waiting On One Man To Decide If Women Have To Travel For Medical Abortions In A Pandemic

In every Australian jurisdiction bar one, women can access medical abortions over telehealth. In South Australia, the law dictates a woman must physically see two different doctors at an approved hospital to get medical abortion pills. Only a handful...

Australian Associated Press • 14th February 2022

Senator blowing hot air with climate science denial

False. Numerous scientific bodies and studies have found an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere has changed the climate. There is no evidence carbon dioxide directly causes any change in the climate. One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts claims there is...

Crikey • 18th August 2022

The one-man newspaper fighting for regional journalism

Most days, Peter Holmes can be found scouring the streets of Orange to fill the pages of the smallest newspaper in Australia. “I spend a lot of time driving around town getting yarns,” he says from the city of 42,000 in the Central West of New South...

Australian Associated Press • 28th January 2022

Great Barrier Reef ‘record coral’ claim is all at sea

Mostly False. Average coral cover reached near-historical highs in 2020-21, but none of the three major regions had record cover. All three major regions of the Great Barrier Reef have never had more coral on them. Despite ongoing concerns about the...