Graham Young

Scott Morrison almost got it right

4 February 2026 10:07 am

If you want to know why the Australian Liberal Party is where it is read Scott Morrison’s piece on fundamentalist…

One Nation on the rise driven by the Opposition’s incompetence

20 January 2026 10:23 pm

Any poll taken in the next few weeks will show an even sharper increase in the vote for One Nation.…

Venezuela for dummies

6 January 2026 10:51 pm

Is Donald Trump making Venezuela great again?

Trump for dummies

14 December 2025 11:20 am

Misunderstanding Trump is an existential threat to Australia

What economy is RBA Deputy Governor Andrew Hauser talking about?

12 November 2025 12:07 pm

Deputy RBA Governor Andrew Hauser used a cute horse-racing analogy to explain the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy at the UBS Australasia…

Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

10 October 2025 8:07 pm

‘Charlie’ is what you call a friend named Charles when you know him well. Before September 10, 2025, hardly anyone…

Importing a Tasmania’s worth of people every year

9 September 2025 8:06 am

We need a policy of immigration pause

Don’t eat the seed corn, Jim

23 July 2025 10:53 am

If Jim Chalmers increases the tax burden on capital gains, it would mark the biggest backflip on a tax pledge…

Productivity? Government is a dead weight on the economy

14 June 2025 2:52 pm

Past performance is the best predictor of future performance, so the business chiefs heading to Anthony Albanese’s Productivity Summit should…

Of saints and sinners

23 May 2025 12:20 am

One is dead and likely to be proclaimed a saint at some time, and the other is alive and performing…

Beyond the sliding doors election

16 May 2025 3:44 pm

‘This election…is a sliding doors moment for our nation,’ declared Peter Dutton, and maybe he was right, and in ways…

Trump was not a significant factor, and that matters

6 May 2025 9:49 pm

Post-election there is always jockeying to write the narrative. Frequently these are either complete fantasy, or ‘faction’ – fiction based…

Adam Bandt tempts Albo with a couple of housing treats

10 April 2025 8:19 pm

If Prime Minister Albanese does not outright reject Adam Bandt’s demand to Grandfather negative gearing and scrap 50 per cent…

Labor clueless on foreign affairs

1 April 2025 10:56 am

Goodness knows why the Chinese government would want to put pressure on the Albanese government during an election campaign, but…

Dutton fires gun on the election

28 March 2025 9:25 am

Anthony Albanese may think he’s being smart by announcing the election the day after Peter Dutton’s reply-to-the-Budget speech, but because…

Budget 2025: out of ideas and full of fiscal analgesics

26 March 2025 2:51 pm

Keating predicted a Banana Republic and it is gradually coming true

Reciprocal tariffs would be foolish

12 March 2025 12:38 pm

Trump imposing tariffs on Australia was perhaps inevitable. Trump 2.0 is not the Trump 1.0 who negotiated free trade agreements…

Happy Epiphany! Wokeism is not post-modern Marxism, but heretical Christianity

9 January 2025 1:30 am

Each year I try and put the season into a Christian perspective because, as plenty of scholars, from Tom Holland…

Trump: the great global reset

8 December 2024 2:14 pm

The re-election of Donald Trump resets the world… His former presidency was almost whimsical. Trump was a rank outsider with…

They are not ‘peace’ activists

13 September 2024 2:00 am

Only the naïve, which seems to include a number of respected commentators, regard the mobs that gather to ‘protest’ against…

It’s everyone else’s fault

8 September 2024 4:47 pm

Jim Chalmers has reacted to news that Australia’s growth has been an anaemic 1 per cent (which with population growth…

Large swing in the NT does not make QLD a foregone conclusion

26 August 2024 10:38 pm

On Saturday, the Northern Territory Country Liberal Party (CLP) achieved a 10 per cent two-party preferred swing to oust the…

What are eco-fascist concepts doing in Australia’s law?

22 June 2023 6:30 am

Recent Australian High Court rulings on issues of Aboriginality have taken a strange turn, and not for the better. It…

What if Albanese doesn’t care if the Voice succeeds?

1 June 2023 6:00 am

Remember when Albo said, ‘I like fighting Tories, that’s what I do’? What if that is really what defines the…

Vale Rule of Law and Rule of Logic

19 May 2023 4:00 am

Shannon Fentiman is the Minister for Justice, Minister for Women, and soon to be the former Queensland Attorney-General. She is…