Amber Schultz

📣 Pulling out the personal news megaphone: After 3.5 fabulous, frenetic & productive years at @crikey_news I am leaving to join the @smh team from tomorrow as the Sun-Herald reporter. Im sad to be leaving such a stellar team, but super excited for a new challenge!

Excited to announce I'm taking on a new role at the @smh covering crime, courts and justice. If you have any tips for a new crime reporter, would like to chat or anonymously drop me a line, my Signal is +61415610076

Today I'm striking with my @SMH colleagues. We want a fair pay deal in line with inflation, which is not insane given our hard work, profits and growth -- and given how much the company is willing to throw at stars in Paris and bosses accused of misconduct.

As @RACGP addiction medicine spokesperson Hester Wilson told @AmberMaySchultz this is a national health problem and we need solutions so people can get the help they need. Benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms can be severe. This must be taken seriously. #AOD smh.com.au/national/steph…

Budget main takeaways: - All households get $300 energy bill rebate this yr - Increasing maximum Commonwealth rent assistance by 10% (up to $18/fortnight for a single) - Medicare mental health boost: new online system in 2026, upgrading existing services theguardian.com/australia-news…

David McBride raised his concerns internally. When they weren't addressed, he went to journalists. He's now the first person to be jailed over the war crimes - five years and 8 months for helping expose murder. Our whistleblower laws are terrible.

An awful story about a woman who fled from her husband who had been convicted five times of domestic abuse charges with her children, and now may be forced to come home thanks to international convention never designed to deal with DV. smh.com.au/national/leann…

Some signs & chants from today's No More National Rally Against Violence in Sydney, with Lucy and Malcolm Turnbull and Sophie Scamps in attendance

I interviewed US tech billionaire @bryan_johnson about the longevity craze as his influence spreads to Sydney smh.com.au/national/gene-…

From @RLC__News, strip searches up to June of this year. Traumatising, unnecessary, and funded by NSW residents.

Brutal to see the voice outcome, but doubly brutal to hear why so many chose no. "I don't understand it," "there wasn't enough detail" as if we don't live in the age of information. Phrased as simplicity, Australians willfull ignorance was its downfall.

The first session featured @AmberMaySchultz, Aakriti Ghai, Renata Zimbarg and Shweta Chandan. The panel was on 'Thriving After Monash' and was moderated by Senior Lecturer, Dr Mugdha Rai. 🎤

With all the rhetoric on dodgy land lands let's add the NSW Land and Housing Corporation to that list: those in public housing have been battling black mould for years smh.com.au/national/nsw/m…

Covering drug reform at Listen Out festival and a punter told me "I hope when I'm way older I'm still cool like you," which ... hurt. There were over 250 police, four sniffer dogs and a lot of people getting searched for drugs they didn't have.

NSW Health is warning the public of a high-dose MDMA tablet (ecstasy), found to contain more than four times the average dose of other MDMA tablets in recent circulation. The tablet is pink-orange in colour and a square shape, with a ‘GUCCI’ logo and wording imprinted on it.

Advocates are rightly worried the warm weather at festival season will see history repeat itself as the government chooses sniffer dogs and police harassment over pill testing and drug reform. smh.com.au/national/nsw/w…

Premier Minns said the government won't introduce pill testing ahead of festival season as "Illicit drugs are illegal," and "that’s been the case of the prev government". It's the same logic the liberals used to ignore expert advice during a spate of festival deaths.

The US spends billions on prisons but still takes mugshot pictures with a 2007 Nokia

The military helicopter involved in a horror crash off the coast of Queensland, leaving four feared dead, has a problematic history with nearly a dozen recorded safety incidents linked to MRH-90 Taipan helicopters. theage.com.au/national/crash…

We are absolutely thrilled that Young Walkley Award winning journalist @AmberMaySchultz will join our judging panel for the 2023 Excellence in Civil Liberties Journalism Awards. Amber won our 2022 Young Journalist prize for a powerful series about the public trustee. Go Amber 💪