Julie Elizabeth McCrossin AM (born 2 October 1954)[1] is an Australian radio broadcaster, journalist, comedian, political commentator and activist for women's and gay rights.
[2][4] From the mid-1970s she has been involved with the gay liberation movement, including the 1975 demonstration outside Sunday Mass at St Mary's Cathedral against the sacking of CAMP spokesperson Mike Clohesy from his teaching position at Marist Brothers, Eastwood.
[5][6][7] In 1981 she published Women, wimmin, womyn, womin, whippets-On Lesbian Separatism, a critique of some aspects of the feminist separatist movement of the day from an anarcho-feminist perspective.
[3] In 2005, 702 ABC Sydney chose her to replace popular host Angela Catterns in the breakfast shift,[4] however one month after starting McCrossin resigned for health reasons (neck cancer).
[14] In 2014, McCrossin participated in a Coastrek fundraiser to promote The Fred Hollows Foundation and raise awareness of health issues within underserved communities and Indigenous Australia.