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Graham Young

Graham Young is chief editor and the publisher of On Line Opinion. He is a writer, and a former vice-president and campaign chairman of the Queensland Liberal Party.

Author's website: Graham Young Columnist's Page


 
It’s not whether you win or lose
Domestic Politics - 27/07/2010 - 21 comments
Refugees will be an election issue
Political Philosophy - 12/07/2010 - 115 comments
Advantage but no honeymoon
Domestic Politics - 28/06/2010 - 26 comments
Little love for Abbott, but voters have stopped listening to Rudd
Domestic Politics - 17/05/2010 - 38 comments
Two years on, the ‘great moral challenge’ just leaves people in the cold
Domestic Politics - 16/02/2010 - 44 comments
Real man v metro man
Domestic Politics - 5/01/2010 - 13 comments
Long wait for voters unhappy with Bligh
Domestic Politics - 15/12/2009 - 17 comments
ALP vote improves as issues turn for them
Domestic Politics - 17/08/2009 - 4 comments
'The Age' and 'On Line Opinion'
Media - 29/07/2009 - 47 comments
'A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists' reviewed
Religion & Spirituality - 9/04/2009 - 168 comments
OLO: here's to the next ten years
April 2009 Feature - 6/04/2009 - 19 comments
Labor isn't selling this time
Domestic Politics - 17/03/2009 - 21 comments
Sub-prime and climate change
January 2009 Feature - 30/01/2009 - 87 comments
The Windschuttle hoax - replete with irony
Political Philosophy - 12/01/2009 - 135 comments
Silencing dissent
Environment - 4/07/2008 - 115 comments
Budget 2008 - both more and less
Domestic Politics - 4/06/2008 - 3 comments
The ABC broadcast bullying and science hooliganism problem
Media - 15/05/2008 - 84 comments
Australia speaks - it's Obama v McCain
International - 5/02/2008 - 27 comments
Libs were their own best opponent
Domestic Politics - 29/11/2007 - 17 comments
New right leadership?
Domestic Politics - 15/10/2007 - 30 comments
Howard earns interest on rates
Domestic Politics - 28/09/2007 - 10 comments
Still wanted; still in the best interests
Domestic Politics - 11/09/2007 - 38 comments
Lapsed Liberals - the ebbing tide
Domestic Politics - 30/07/2007 - 38 comments
Death by water
Domestic Politics - 9/07/2007 - 36 comments
New South Wales voters to have a beer with Hobson
Domestic Politics - 23/03/2007 - 17 comments
Why Iemma isn't 'Italian for Unsworth'
Domestic Politics - 5/03/2007 - 15 comments
Evolution is the name of the game
Domestic Politics - 11/09/2006 - 10 comments
Vulture Street story
Society - 29/05/2006 - 12 comments
More can be less - Rann’s popularity his only weakness
Domestic Politics - 6/03/2006 - 6 comments
Redesigning 'On Line Opinion' together
Media - 20/02/2006 - 23 comments
Why 'On Line Opinion' hasn’t published those cartoons
Media - 9/02/2006 - 58 comments
Why it matters that Greenpeace lied and the press doesn't seem to care
Media - 12/01/2006 - 133 comments
Meet the family - 'On Line Opinion' reader survey results
Media - 2/12/2005 - 73 comments
McPolitics
Domestic Politics - 29/07/2005 - 27 comments
Iraq - Kim Beazley picks at his issues
Domestic Politics - 14/03/2005 - 20 comments
Chicken's liver says Gallop will win
Domestic Politics - 25/02/2005 - 14 comments
'Greg and Marsha' can't stop John Howard remaking Australia in his own image
Domestic Politics - 11/10/2004
An electorate divided and entrenched: a tripartite dilemma for Australian politicians
Domestic Politics - 23/09/2004
Qld Liberals must stop the internal battles and focus on winning seats
Domestic Politics - 17/09/2003 - 1 comment
What's all the fuss about? Hanson got no more or less than she deserved
Domestic Politics - 25/08/2003
Australians' anti-American sentiment runs deeper than it looks to Canberra
Domestic Politics - 4/08/2003
A dog's life: Aussie Blue Heeler might chase Labor's Ground Hog away
Domestic Politics - 23/06/2003
What John Brogden and the Libs should be saying to NSW voters
Domestic Politics - 18/03/2003
Votercam reporting - a street-level view of the New South Wales election
Domestic Politics - 7/03/2003
Dow Jones v Gutnick: the Internet honeymoon is over. What's next?
Law & Liberties - 17/01/2003
What happened in the Victorian election
Domestic Politics - 5/12/2002
The Cunningham by-election: the perverse results of
Domestic Politics - 23/10/2002
Is the Party over?
Domestic Politics - 23/08/2002
Costello makes Telstra more difficult to sell
Domestic Politics - 1/07/2002
The new media have changed the nature of political campaigning
Domestic Politics - 3/06/2002
A bad budget for future leaders
Domestic Politics - 3/06/2002
Brogden shouldn’t even talk about winning.
Domestic Politics - 15/05/2002
How web publishing is making the world more democratic
Media - 15/04/2002
Why online journals haven’t made a dint … yet
Media - 15/03/2002
The new media have changed the nature of political campaigning
Media - 6/03/2002
Notes on the South Australian election
Domestic Politics - 15/02/2002
There is a republican agenda behind the persecution of Peter Hollingworth
Domestic Politics - 15/01/2002
No guts, no guile and no glory: how the Labor Party lost the 2001 federal election
Domestic Politics - 15/12/2001
Forgive me, Meg - I was wrong
Domestic Politics - 3/12/2001
Won the battle, lost the war
Domestic Politics - 15/11/2001
Australian voters are looking for inclusive leadership
Domestic Politics - 5/11/2001
The Little Engine Who Could - Kim Beazley, John Howard and the Great Debate
Domestic Politics - 17/10/2001
Swinging voters are not hearing anything that will push them to change the government
Domestic Politics - 11/09/2001
Beazley puts himself behind on the refugee issue
Domestic Politics - 9/09/2001
Putting some yeast in the electoral Magic Pudding - ways Labor can fund tax cuts and spending
Domestic Politics - 15/08/2001
Beazley can't crow too loud about the Aston by-election result
Domestic Politics - 15/07/2001
Howard can improve his batting by concentrating on the issues, not his average
Domestic Politics - 15/06/2001
Honestly, Kernot could make Prime Minister yet
Domestic Politics - 15/04/2001
Mean, tricky, out of touch and not listening
Domestic Politics - 15/04/2001
Not relaxed and comfortable with Howard
Domestic Politics - 31/03/2001
For the sake of the party, go with Tash
Domestic Politics - 15/03/2001
Defining moments of the Queensland election
Domestic Politics - 23/02/2001
The Coalition must be redefined if non-Labor is to overcome One Nation
Domestic Politics - 23/02/2001
Notes on the Western Australian Election
Domestic Politics - 12/02/2001
How optional preferential voting works
Domestic Politics - 31/01/2001
Why Beattie is helping Hanson
Domestic Politics - 31/01/2001
We need a better system for preselecting election candidates
Domestic Politics - 15/01/2001
Ryan shows up weaknesses in the Queensland Liberal Party
Domestic Politics - 22/12/2000
Getting the Meta Politics right.
Domestic Politics - 15/12/2000
Nielsen poll doesn't quite support a Treaty for Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Affairs - 15/11/2000 - 2 comments
The political outcomes of Shepherdson and Fitzgerald are likely to be different
Domestic Politics - 4/11/2000
Howard behind in polls and issues for 2001 campaign
Domestic Politics - 31/10/2000
Packer's loss is our gain
Domestic Politics - 30/09/2000 - 1 comment
Nothing new under the sun
Domestic Politics - 15/09/2000
Reconciliation to a European Dreaming?
Indigenous Affairs - 15/09/2000
Political geography
Domestic Politics - 15/08/2000
Della Bosca does Beazley a favour
Domestic Politics - 15/07/2000
What is John Howard doing in Queensland?
Domestic Politics - 16/06/2000
Benalla shouldn’t be a bogey for Howard or Beazley
Domestic Politics - 15/05/2000
Queensland Liberals need a Peter Beattie and a Dennis Murphy
Domestic Politics - 2/04/2000
Brisbane not the Bush - Some Federal Implications of the Brisbane City Council Election
Domestic Politics - 15/03/2000
Competition the only real antidote to Cash for Comment
Domestic Politics - 15/02/2000
Labor stumbles in by-elections
Domestic Politics - 31/01/2000
Back where it started - Queensland by-elections, One Nation and the Libs
Domestic Politics - 12/01/2000
God Begs to Be Excused from the Preamble
Religion & Spirituality - 15/11/1999
If the campaign is lost the war is still won
September 1999 Feature - 15/10/1999
Jottings on the Victorian State Election
Domestic Politics - 15/09/1999
Not quite the road to Damascus
September 1999 Feature - 15/09/1999
Third Way Part Way
Domestic Politics - 15/08/1999
Government on the rack over lamb
Economics - 15/07/1999
So Near and Yet So Far
Indigenous Affairs - 15/06/1999
Bush Talks - The Human Rights Traps move into Hanson Territory
April 1999 Feature - 15/04/1999
Democracy by the Wayside
Political Philosophy - 15/04/1999
Extracts from Bush Talks
April 1999 Feature - 15/04/1999
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