Crystal Andrews

Melbourne

Founder and Editor at ZEE FEED

Author & Media Person With Opinions Editor & Founder of @zee_feed

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Reader reply: I'm a NSW doctor. Striking is our only option in an unsafe hospital system

2 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Crystal Andrews

I’m currently a resident medical officer working at Westmead Hospital in New South Wales. We’re now on the final day of the first doctors’ strike since the 1990s. This is not a decision that has come easily; it fills us with guilt and despair that we are here. We want to be on the wards. We want to be caring for our patients. But our concerns about an under-resourced, unsafe system have been ignored by successive governments. Why has it come to a strike?
We won’t change minds online in 2025 election

2 weeks ago | zeefeed.com.au | Crystal Andrews

The first federal election we covered on Zee Feed was in 2022, just two years after I founded this publication. After nine years in government, the Coalition was emphatically voted down by Australians who’d had enough of Scott Morrison himself, and his scandal-plagued ministers.
Electioncast: Tariffs, trade wars and Trump

3 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Crystal Andrews

Crikey‘s Electioncast is back! Every Friday throughout the 2025 federal election campaign, politics editor Bernard Keane, readers editor Crystal Andrews and a cast of Crikey journalists will unpack the policy promises, spill gossip from the campaign trail and address one of the key questions of this election: is the major party duopoly dead?
Introducing the Crikey Eggheads: Our panel of undecided voters from across the country

3 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Crystal Andrews

No-one can claim Crikey readers don’t have a lot to say. When I asked subscribers if any would be keen to share their views on the federal election, more than 250 people came forward to share insights from their electorates, put their opinion on record and help shape our coverage.
Dead salmon, dying skates: How Tasmania was thrown into the election spotlight

1 month ago | crikey.com.au | Crystal Andrews

Anthony Albanese is expected to introduce an amendment to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act on Tuesday to protect Tasmania’s salmon farming industry from legal challenges by environmental groups. It will be the latest in a barrage of developments since dead salmon began washing up on Tasmanian beaches in late February, putting what might have been a niche issue firmly in the federal election spotlight.
‘We call that social murder’: Five years on from COVID supplement payments, more of us live in poverty

1 month ago | crikey.com.au | Crystal Andrews

On March 22, 2020, Scott Morrison announced the government would be “supercharging our safety net” by introducing the Coronavirus Supplement — an additional $275 per week for people receiving Centrelink payments. It effectively doubled the JobSeeker payment, bringing nearly 1 million people over the poverty line — temporarily — until the supplement was ended in March 2021.
During fire season we sniff for smoke: Crikey readers on mobile black spots

1 month ago | crikey.com.au | Crystal Andrews |Crystal Andrews

Recent news events underscore the importance of getting universal coverage right. During the out-of-control Grampians bushfire in December, firefighters protested that mobile phone reception on the fireground was “nearly non-existent”. Today, communities in Queensland and NSW are relying on their phones as they’re warned to heed emergency weather notifications ahead of Tropical Cyclone Alfred making landfall.
Who said 'a centrist is a lefty'? And other gossip from the digital campaign trail

1 month ago | crikey.com.au | Crystal Andrews

Is this going to be the “podcast election”? The second or third so-called “social media election”? Or is it simply that digital campaigning has long been an essential part of politics? Campaigning on the internet, a place where a lot of voters spend too much of their time, is about as normal and unsexy as it gets. So I’m shouldering the normal, unsexy task of traversing the internet you might not already be lurking in, and reporting back.
Peggy Sue, who? While the focus is on young men's politics, here’s what young women are up to

2 months ago | crikey.com.au | Crystal Andrews

If you’ve been looking at any of Peter Dutton’s social media accounts over the past week, or at the replies to news articles and social posts about him, you might have noticed one phrase popping up again and again: Peggy Sue. Dear reader, I am going to explain the Peggy Sue story to you, and while it might seem trivial or cheap at first, stick with me because there is a bigger point to be made about the political mood of the moment.
Peggy Sue, who? While the focus is on young men’s politics, here’s what young women are up to

2 months ago | inkl.com | Bernard Keane |Crystal Andrews |Charlie Lewis

If you’ve been looking at any of Peter Dutton’s social media accounts over the past week, or at the replies to news articles and social posts about him, you might have noticed one phrase popping up again and again: Peggy Sue. Dear reader, I am going to explain the Peggy Sue story to you, and while it might seem trivial or cheap at first, stick with me because there is a bigger point to be made about the political mood of the moment.

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6 Nov 24

RT @DrSimEvans: Reminder: Victory for Trump is likely to all but end global hopes of staying below 1.5C, our analysis found in March http…

Crystal Andrews @crystal_jane

6 Nov 24

RT @noahsreality: how it feels being a pennsylvania voter today https://t.co/Im3XfIzEv0

Crystal Andrews @crystal_jane

6 Nov 24

Tried to fit all the chaos of the final 24 hours of the election campaign into ~800 words, did I succeed? https://t.co/9NJRxQjtWK https://t.co/onNqyHvOnf

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Articles

Reader reply: I'm a NSW doctor. Striking is our only option in an unsafe hospital system

We won’t change minds online in 2025 election

Electioncast: Tariffs, trade wars and Trump

Introducing the Crikey Eggheads: Our panel of undecided voters from across the country

Dead salmon, dying skates: How Tasmania was thrown into the election spotlight

‘We call that social murder’: Five years on from COVID supplement payments, more of us live in poverty

During fire season we sniff for smoke: Crikey readers on mobile black spots

Who said 'a centrist is a lefty'? And other gossip from the digital campaign trail

Peggy Sue, who? While the focus is on young men's politics, here’s what young women are up to

Peggy Sue, who? While the focus is on young men’s politics, here’s what young women are up to

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