Emily McPherson
Emily McPherson is a senior reporter at Nine.com.au who covers business and economic stories through a social justice lens, focusing on how corporate decisions, workplace practices and public policy affect people's lives.
Workplace rights and class actions
McPherson’s business coverage foregrounds workers and workplace rights, including fast-food staff seeking a share of a multi-million-dollar class action payout against KFC. She connects these stories to broader patterns of underpayment and insecure work, framing employment disputes as questions of fairness within large corporate systems. This focus extends to people pushed out of work during the pandemic, where she reports on New Zealanders in Australia who lost their jobs and called for more government support as their JobSeeker payments ran out.
Cost-of-living pressures and welfare gaps
In her pandemic unemployment coverage, McPherson shows how gaps in welfare policy translate into mounting cost-of-living pressure. Her reporting on New Zealand citizens excluded from full social security support highlights the financial stress, uncertainty and sense of being left behind that accompany sudden loss of income.
By centring individual stories of people whose payments have ended, she connects abstract policy settings to concrete outcomes such as housing insecurity, difficulty paying bills and the strain on families trying to navigate limited support.
Small business, platforms and online risk
McPherson also reports on small businesses built on social media platforms, such as a Queensland man whose “perfect” Facebook-led business was undermined when hackers took over his page to buy ads selling nose hair trimmers. The story examines how dependence on platform infrastructure leaves small operators vulnerable to online fraud and exposes the fragility of business models that rely on third-party technology companies for access to customers. By detailing the disruption to the owner’s livelihood and his struggle to regain control of the account, she shows how cybersecurity, platform policies and customer trust intersect for everyday business owners.
Law reform, health and women’s rights
Her interest in social justice extends into legal and health policy, including coverage of proposed DNA donation laws inspired by the experience of a five-year-old girl needing mitochondrial transfer. By anchoring complex regulatory debates in an individual family’s story, she makes technical reforms accessible while emphasising their human stakes for children, parents and future patients. This work demonstrates her ability to translate specialised scientific and legal issues into clear, emotionally resonant reporting.
McPherson also writes about women’s rights and activism, such as her piece “We Won a War” on Manal Alsharif, which urges a new generation of women to continue fighting for freedoms even after landmark victories. These features situate personal narratives within wider struggles over gender equality and civil liberties, underscoring how change hinges on sustained collective effort and the ongoing need to defend hard-won gains.
Social justice lens on business and policy
Across topics, McPherson reports as a senior journalist whose special interest in social justice shapes her choice of stories and sources. Whether writing about class actions, welfare eligibility, platform-dependent businesses or law reform, she uses business and policy angles to illuminate structural power imbalances and their everyday consequences. Her work often combines clear explanations of systems - legal, economic or technological - with detailed human case studies, making complex issues relatable without losing nuance.
This approach distinguishes her coverage on the business beat from more transactional reporting, as she consistently asks who benefits, who is harmed and how rules could change to deliver fairer outcomes.
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Adrian Black
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Adrian Leung
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