Julie McCrossin Biography
Julie McCrossin AM is a radio broadcaster, journalist, comedian, political commentator, and advocate for women’s and homosexual rights in Australia. Between 1996 and 2000, she was best known for her position as a team captain on the news-based comedic quiz show Good News Week.
How old is Julie McCrossin? – Age
She is 68 years old as of 2 October 2022. She was born in 1954 in Sydney, Australia. Her real name is Julie Elizabeth McCrossin.
Julie McCrossin Family – Education
She struggled with alcohol in her teens and characterizes herself as a “hopeless drinker” before quitting for good at the age of 24. SCEGGS Darlinghurst, the University of Sydney (BA), Sydney Teachers College (DipEd), and the University of Technology, Sydney are where she received her education. She eventually returned to university and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales.
Julie McCrossin Partner
Melissa Gibson, her long-term spouse, and Melissa’s two children from a previous relationship live with her. Readers of the website samesame.com.au selected McCrossin one of the 25 most prominent lesbians in Australia in 2009.
Julie McCrossin Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $3 Million.
Julie McCrossin Good News Week
Between 1996 and 2000, McCrossin appeared weekly as the leader of one of two rival teams on the news-based television sitcom Good News Week. Good News Week is a satirical panel game show that aired in Australia from 19 April 1996 to 27 May 2000, and again from 11 February 2008 to 28 April 2012. The show was first broadcast on ABC before being purchased by Network Ten in 1999. When several of Network Ten’s imported US programs ceased production due to the Writers Guild of America strike in 2007-2008, the program was restored for a second run.
Good News Week took its satire and humor from current events, political people, media organizations, and, on occasion, parts of the show itself. The show began with a monologue by McDermott about current headlines, followed by two teams of three panelists competing in recurring segments for points.
Julie McCrossin Cancer
McCrossin was hired by 702 ABC Sydney to replace famous broadcaster Angela Catterns on the breakfast shift in 2005, but she resigned one month later due to health issues (neck cancer). McCrossin has been named a Targeting Cancer Ambassador. In 2013, she was diagnosed with oropharyngeal cancer, which was treated with radiation therapy and chemotherapy. She has regained her speech and swallowing abilities and is back to her usual hectic schedule. Follow Julie’s treatment experience, from diagnosis to treatment to embracing the future, in the films below.
Julie McCrossin Career
McCrossin started her career in children’s theater, and she describes her job as “[talking] for a living.” She has been involved with the gay liberation movement since the middle of the 1970s. One example of this involvement was her participation in the 1975 demonstration outside of Sunday Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral to protest the firing of CAMP spokesperson Mike Clohesy from his teaching position at Marist Brothers, Eastwood.
She has also advocated for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Australia and was a part of the 1978 protests that led to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. McCrossin is a member of the group known as the “78ers,” which took part in Sydney’s first Mardi Gras in 1978, protests at Darlinghurst and Central Police Stations and Central Court, and city-wide marches. She published Women, wimmin, womyn, womin, whippets-On Lesbian Separatism in 1981, an anarcho-feminist critique of some aspects of the feminist separatist movement of the time.
McCrossin worked her first job as a broadcaster on the community radio station 2SER’s “Gaywaves.” In 1983, she started working for ABC’s Radio National. At first, she was the host of the women’s radio show The Coming Out Show. Later, she hosted other shows like “The Arts Show” and “Background Briefing.” Somewhere in the range of 2000 and 2005, she introduced the social issues program “Life Matters”, at first with Geraldine Doogue and later as an independent moderator.
