Charles Croucher

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Charles Croucher
Alma mater Charles Sturt University
Occupationjournalist
Known forbeing the Nine Network's chief political editor
Television Nine News , Weekend Today

Charles Croucher is an Australian journalist.

He is currently the Nine Network's chief political editor, a position he was appointed to in October 2022. [1]

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Early life and career

He grew up in Branxton, New South Wales. [2] He attended Hunter Valley Grammar School, graduating in 2005. [2]

He studied a Bachelor of Sport Studies/Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) double degree at Charles Sturt University, where he graduated in 2009.[ citation needed ]

While he was at university, he found employment with Bathurst radio stations 2BS and B-Rock where he worked as a news presenter, before becoming the host of a weekend breakfast show and then the presenter of the weekday morning program. [3]

In 2009, Croucher was a finalist in the "Best News Presenter (Country)" category at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards but lost to Lois Chislett from 3YB in Warrnambool, Victoria. [4] [5]

Television career

In 2010, Croucher began his long association with the Nine Network in Darwin when he was appointed as a sports reporter for Nine News Darwin where he also became a weekend news presenter. [3]

In 2012, he moved to Melbourne to work as a reporter for A Current Affair before relocating to Canberra in 2013 upon being appointed as a politics reporter based at Parliament House. [3]

From 2018 to 2020, Croucher was Nine's Los Angeles-based US correspondent before returning to Australia to become a co-host of Weekend Today in 2020. [3]

In October 2022, it was announced he would succeed Chris Uhlmann as the Nine Network's political editor. [3]

As Nine's political editor, Croucher regularly provides commentary in a regular segment on RN Breakfast , where he discusses political news with Patricia Karvelas on ABC Radio National. [6] [7] [8]

National Press Club incident

Following a National Press Club address in October 2022, Croucher asked Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers whether the Australian Labor Party's promise to cut electricity bills by $275 had been included in the Federal Budget, Chalmers mistakenly claimed: "Yep, it's in the Budget". [9] However, Chalmers later claimed to have misheard the question, phoning Croucher to confess his mistake, and correcting the record in the House of Representatives. [9]

When pressed on the issue during Question Time by Angus Taylor, he stated: "I was temporarily blinded by the vast influence of Charles Croucher who has inherited this remarkable position of power from Laurie Oakes and Chris Uhlmann and I say, as I said to Charles who I rang straight after the press club, I rang Charles and I rang Laura Tingle and I said I thought you were asking me a different question, I misheard it and I answered a different question and so I say again to Charles, who is in the gallery through you, Mr Speaker, I misheard his question and I am generally grateful for once to the member for Hume for the opportunity to talk about this. [10]

The incident was widely reported and commentated on in the media. [11] [12] [13] Chalmers was criticised for his explanation by 2GB host Ben Fordham who doubted that he had misheard Croucher's question. [14]

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  9. 1 2 McLeod, Catie (26 October 2022). "Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he 'misheard' a question about power bill savings". news.com.au. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  10. ↑ Cassidy, Caitlyn; Remeikis, Amy (26 October 2022). "Treasurer says Taylor's fingerprints 'all over' energy policy chaos – as it happened". The Guardian . Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  11. ↑ Williams, Tom (26 October 2022). "The treasurer says he misheard a question during his Press Club speech". ABC News . Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  12. ↑ Crowe, David (26 October 2022). "Albanese's election promise to bring down power bills comes back to bite Chalmers". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
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  14. ↑ "Ben Fordham fires up over Chalmers' $275 power bill stumble". The Australian . Retrieved 18 May 2023.
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