Graham Young

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…

Naked self-interest: Chalmers, Labor, and the unions

8 February 2023 4:30 am

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ essay in The Monthly is an urgent, although not particularly eloquent, proof of the need for organisations like…

Carbon taxes are useless without a technological breakthrough

1 February 2023 4:00 am

Raising the cost of using a particular fuel will shift consumption to another fuel, but only if all other things…

‘No’ to Covid amnesty

23 January 2023 6:00 am

We appear to be reaching a tipping point on Covid governance as high-profile advocate after high-profile advocate of masks, mandates…

Change the government, or the reef gets it!

3 December 2022 4:00 am

As far as Australian left-wing politicians were concerned, the threatened endangerment finding on the Great Barrier Reef was just blackmail.…

Net Zero? The hypocrisy of the religious clerisy

10 November 2022 4:00 am

It is a rootless age when 100 of the leaders of various Christian and other churches in Oceania can pen an…

Healthy Great Barrier Reef, healthy environmental scandal

10 August 2022 8:00 am

The release of the Australian Institute of Marine Science’s Annual Summary Report on Coral Reef Condition for 2021/22 has exposed a major…

Voters put the ‘majors’ on notice

3 June 2022 8:00 am

In this federal election, the Coalition and the freedom parties – Liberal Democrats, One Nation, and United Australia Party –…

Rich Uncle Albo’s shared equity nightmare

12 May 2022 2:00 pm

For the worst-crafted, most ineffectual policy of this election campaign it would be hard to go past Rich Uncle Albo’s…

The endless repeat of history

25 April 2022 9:00 am

Many of our collective disasters are shaped by a lack of imagination. We tend to privilege what we know or…

‘Mean Girls’ will shape the next election

28 March 2022 12:00 pm

Liberals are basking in schadenfreude after allegations of bullying were levelled at Labor’s Senate leadership team of Penny Wong, Katy…

The war front is closer than you might like

15 March 2022 12:00 pm

Trouble at home, trouble abroad. Australia is being challenged at a number of levels, but there are some common themes.…

We said nothing, and then they came for us

15 February 2022 4:00 am

First they came for the freaks – Milo Yiannopoulos and Alex Jones – and we did nothing because, you know,…

How do I vote for the ‘Barty Party’?

2 February 2022 12:00 pm

In the contrasts between Ash Barty and Nick Kyrgios we see a little of the divisions that rend modern Australian…

ScoMo in SloMo slide toward fatal collision at next election

27 January 2022 9:00 am

The next federal election will be held no later than May 21, 2022. It looks like a re-run of 2007…

Schwarten’s ‘Covid logic’ cruelly divides Queenslanders

14 January 2022 4:00 am

It’s far past time that people stop playing politics with Covid, as former ALP Old Guard enforcer Robert Schwarten did…

The unholy Trinity of vaccine mandates

23 December 2021 12:50 pm

Vaccine mandates are everywhere. Now, they are infecting the Christian churches even though they are illogical, ineffective, and un-Christian. If…

Scott Morrison has created his own vaccine mandate crisis

22 November 2021 11:55 am

Editor’s note: Technical issues prevented the publication of this piece ahead of this morning’s Senate vote where five Coalition members…

Why what our kids are taught could be a vote changer

11 November 2021 4:00 am

The US state of Virginia is just about as close to Washington DC as you can be, and even contains…