Reverend Dr Michael Bird of Ridley College, Melbourne, is an accomplished author for The Spectator Australia as well as academically in his own right, but his criticisms of Franklin Graham—son of the famous Billy Graham—are unwarranted and misleading. Bird has recently written a column for the ABC’s Religion & Ethics outlining why he won’t be going to hear him speak when Graham comes out to Australia next year, and why he will be discouraging everyone else he knows from attending as well.