Jessica McCready

Jessica McCready is an Australian economic writer known for translating complex monetary, fiscal and housing stories into clear reporting for everyday readers. She began her career as a finance reporter in regional Victoria, cutting her teeth on business profiles and local budget coverage before moving into national economics desks. Over the past decade, she has covered interest rate decisions, superannuation policy, energy-transition funding, and the economic impacts of global supply chains, with a particular focus on how changes flow through wages, prices and household confidence. Her work has been cited by industry commentators and included in newsroom explainers that won internal engagement awards. Jessica is also a regular contributor to long-form interviews with economists and policy officials, and she has built a reputation for rigorous data sourcing and careful contextualisation—especially during volatile periods for inflation and employment. She currently balances daily news deadlines with longer analytical pieces that connect macroeconomic trends to Australian real-world outcomes.