Australian journalist and economics editor
Adam Creighton is an Australian journalist and the Washington correspondent for The Australian .[ 1]
He was previously the economics editor.[ 2] He has also written for The Wall Street Journal [ 3] and The Economist ,[ 2] and has appeared on the ABC panel show Q+A .[ 4] Creighton has received several awards for his journalism and writing.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
Creighton holds a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours from the University of New South Wales , and Master of Philosophy in Economics from Balliol College, Oxford , where he was a Commonwealth Scholar, and was a journalist-in-residence at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2019.[ 2] He is also a contributor to Sky News Australia [ 8] and is a member of the Advisory Council of the National Archives of Australia .[ 9]
Creighton has previously worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia , Centre for Independent Studies and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority . In 2010, he served as a senior economic adviser to then-Australian opposition leader, Tony Abbott .[ 9]
Career and views
Creighton is regarded as holding generally conservative views and has been described by Jason Wilson of The Guardian as an "arch-neoliberal ",[ 10] though Creighton contests that definition and describes his views as "old DLP Labor sprinkled with a bit of libertarianism "[ 11] and points to his stance in favour of land and inheritance taxes , a higher top marginal tax rate for very high incomes, tougher bank and pharmaceutical regulation, abolishing negative gearing and a universal age pension , and his advocacy against privatisation of energy markets .[ 12] Creighton opposes increased action on climate change by the Australian government , and has warned of the lack of precision of climate and economic modelling , drawing on work by economist Robert Pindyck .[ 13]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, as the economics editor for The Australian , Creighton was an ardent critic of government-implemented lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19 ,[ 14] [ 15] [ 16] [ 17] [ 18] and praised Sweden's less restrictive approach to slowing the spread of the virus.[ 19] Creighton's defence of the Swedish government response to the COVID-19 pandemic drew criticism from other sections of the media, with Crikey 's Guy Rundle claiming that Creighton's columns were "a compendium of false comparisons",[ 20] and The Guardian ' s Jason Wilson writing that Creighton's claims were "flatly contradicted by published epidemiological research",[ 21] citing a paper that did not mention Sweden.[ 22]
Creighton has referred to strict lockdowns as an affront to personal liberty and reflective of what he calls "health fascism".[ 23] In April 2020, Creighton signed a joint letter with several dozen people from academia, business and media, calling for a scaling-back of Australia's lockdowns by May.[ 24] He has argued for open debate and free speech, when commenting on opposition to The Joe Rogan Experience , writing: "It should be OK to have, and to air, a different view from public health officials, especially eminent scientists with long track records of publication, right or wrong."[ 25]
Publications
References
^ "Adam Creighton heads to US for Washington role" . The Australian . 15 January 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2021 .
^ a b c "Adam Creighton | Author at The Australian " . The Australian . Retrieved 20 February 2020 .
^ "Adam Creighton" . The Wall Street Journal . Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020 .
^ "Zali's Political Slalom" . ABC . 5 August 2019. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020 .
^ Fitzgerald, Karl. "EJ Craigie Award Winner – Adam Creighton" . Prosper Australia . Retrieved 20 February 2020 .
^ "Adam Creighton wins Citi Journalism Award for Excellence" . The Australian . 30 April 2015.
^ "Citi Journalism Awards for Excellence | Previous Journalism Award winners" . citigroup.com . Retrieved 20 February 2020 .
^ "General Motors ultimately 'doesn't care about Australian jobs' " . Sky News Australia . Retrieved 20 February 2020 .
^ a b "Mr Adam Creighton" . National Archives of Australia . Retrieved 20 February 2020 .
^ Wilson, Jason (3 February 2015). "The rightwing reaction to Queensland shows they want to rule, not govern" . The Guardian . Retrieved 20 February 2020 .
^ Creighton, Adam (29 December 2020). "Confessions of an 'arch neoliberal' " . The Australian . Retrieved 29 December 2020 .
^ "User beware: Wikipedia has fallen for groupthink" . The Australian . 7 August 2023.
^ Creighton, Adam (18 November 2020). "Deloitte climate report more a fearmongering manifesto" . The Australian . Retrieved 21 December 2020 .
^ Creighton, Adam (14 April 2020). "We may be over-reacting to an unremarkable coronavirus" . The Australian . Retrieved 21 December 2020 .
^ Creighton, Adam (18 August 2020). "Coronavirus: We should kiss these lockdowns goodbye" . The Australian . Retrieved 21 December 2020 .
^ Creighton, Adam (1 September 2020). "The COVID-19 panic is unnecessary – it is much less threatening than we think" . The Australian . Retrieved 21 December 2020 .
^ Creighton, Adam (13 April 2020). "Coronavirus: lockdown 'hysteria is ruining 10 million lives' " . The Australian . Retrieved 29 December 2020 .
^ Creighton, Adam (21 April 2020). "Under 60, in good health? Crossing the road is more risky" . The Australian . Retrieved 29 December 2020 .
^ Creighton, Adam (6 October 2020). "Coronavirus: Sweden defied zealots and never met its Waterloo" . The Australian . Retrieved 21 December 2020 .
^ Rundle, Guy (1 May 2020). "The right's attacks on Victorian health official show their failure and desperation" . Crikey . Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2020 .
^ Wilson, Jason (21 December 2020). "Sky News Australia is increasingly pushing conspiracy theories to a global audience online" . The Guardian . Archived from the original on 20 December 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020 .
^ Nina Haug; Lukas Geyrhofer; Alessandro Londei; Elma Dervic; Amélie Desvars-Larrive; Vittorio Loreto; Beate Pinior; Stefan Thurner; Peter Klimek (16 November 2020). "Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions" . Nature Human Behaviour (4): 1303–1312. doi :10.1038/s41562-020-01009-0 . hdl :11573/1708441 .
^ Creighton, Adam (19 December 2020). "Personal liberty sacrificed at the altar of Covid public safety" . The Australian .
^ Cranston, Matthew (24 April 2020). "Economists duel it out on when to lift restrictions" . Australian Financial Review . Archived from the original on 7 May 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2020 .
^ Creighton, Adam (7 February 2022). "Rogan ban a sign of elite's reluctance to allow free speech" . The Australian .
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