Adam Creighton (journalist)
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 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[5] and is a member of the Advisory Council of the National Archives of Australia.[6]
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.[6]
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",[7] though Creighton contests that definition and describes his views as "old DLP Labor sprinkled with a bit of libertarianism".[8] He 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.[9] Creighton has received several awards for his writing.[10][11][12]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, as the economics editor for The Australian, Creighton has been an ardent critic of government-implemented lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19,[13][14][15][16][17] and praised Sweden's less restrictive approach to slowing the spread of the virus.[18] 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",[19] and The Guardian's Jason Wilson writing that Creighton's claims were "flatly contradicted by published epidemiological research".[20]
Creighton has referred to strict lockdowns as an affront to personal liberty and reflective of what he calls "health fascism".[21] 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.[22]
Publications[]
- Creighton, Adam; Piggott, John (2006). "The Structure and Performance of Mandated Pensions". In Gordon L. Clark; Alicia H. Munnell; J. Michael Orszag (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199272464.003.0013. ISBN 978-019157720-8.
- with Gower, Luke; Richards, Anthony R. (January 2007). "The impact of rating changes in Australian financial markets". Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. 15 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1016/j.pacfin.2006.04.003.
- — (April 2008). "Taxing private equity". Policy Review (148): 19–33.
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 2020-02-20.
- ^ "Adam Creighton". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 15 December 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.
- ^ "General Motors ultimately 'doesn't care about Australian jobs'". Sky News Australia. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
- ^ a b "Mr Adam Creighton". National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
- ^ Wilson, Jason (2015-02-03). "The rightwing reaction to Queensland shows they want to rule, not govern". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
- ^ Creighton, Adam (29 December 2020). "Confessions of an 'arch neoliberal'". The Australian. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ Creighton, Adam (18 November 2020). "Deloitte climate report more a fearmongering manifesto". The Australian. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Karl. "EJ Craigie Award Winner – Adam Creighton". Prosper Australia. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
- ^ "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 2020-02-20.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
External links[]
- Living people
- Australian economists
- University of New South Wales alumni
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- 21st-century economists
- 21st-century Australian journalists
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