ED Australian Institute for Progress. Online pollster, political commentator and occasional strategist. Surfer, father and musician. Pronouns: your choice.
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Graham Young retweeted
🚨🚨 HOLLY COW! You will not believe what I found.
After I posted about the AEC’s global collaborations, I thought I should check what these committees actually are, and ended up free falling into a shocking rabbit hall.
I will take you through the network step by step, with receipts and all, in the comments. First, the principle. What I saw, what I thought it was, and what I now think it already is - so you get the full picture upfront.
I picked up International IDEA from BRIDGE network to start with, only because it has such an outrages description:
IDEA- International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance: "an INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION that supports SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRACY worldwide. Its objective is to support sustainable democratic change by providing comparative knowledge, assisting in DEMOCRATIC REFORMS AND INFLUENCING POLICIES AND POLITICS. It aims to strengthen democratic institutions and processes."
Read that again. An institute, owned by governments, whose job is to influence policies and politics, and whose membership is the proof that this is legitimate.
I opened the site expecting elections. What I found was a climate website. It is not a page about keeping polling stations open in a flood. Floods and heatwaves do disrupt elections, and planning for that is ordinary administration. That is the small print. The page itself is about what democratic institutions should do when climate policy is at stake.
Their wording treats slow or reversed climate policy as a failure of democracy, not as one result an election is allowed to produce. The fixes sit outside the count. Framework laws and clauses on future generations, so a later government cannot simply repeal the policy.
Standing advisers who keep pressure on parliament after the vote. Citizen climate assemblies, described as a “social mandate” for net-zero. Climate litigation when elected governments do not act. And a playbook against what they call disinformation, launched with their coalition at COP30.
They are not proposing to cancel ballots. They want to safeguard the agenda from democratically elected government.
Initially I thought I had found a shield against One Nation that works like that:
The AEC would still run the election and count the votes. One Nation could still win. After the win, the instruction to the state is already scripted.
Departments keep serving the old Act. A commissioner writes and demands a reply. Litigants use the rulings this network tracks. Foreign ministries and donors cite the score. An assembly report is handed to senators as the real public view. The official line is that the election was clean, the climate facts are settled, and claims about costs or blackouts are misinformation.
Media briefings and school materials already carry that line. The scrap bogs down in court, in the Senate, in the story, and in pressure from outside.
IDEA’s coalition has strategic support from the European Climate Foundation and the German government. Speakers there treated democratic decline and weaker climate policy as the same problem.
Australia’s link is not the AEC as a member. The member is the government, through DFAT. The AEC is the commission in the room. BRIDGE, the shared election curriculum, was set up in Canberra in December 1999.
The partners were the AEC, IDEA, the American election body IFES, and two UN offices. The National Security College at the ANU has hosted the commissioner and IDEA on the same stage. More than a hundred election bodies sit in the later club, A-WEB.
Then I thought, hang on, if this is the climate arm , there must be other arms for different targets such as gender, immigrations and others. And lo and behold, here they are, one by one:
Gender sits in BRIDGE itself. Same machine, different target. There is a module called Gender Equality and Elections. Quotas. “Temporary special measures.” A gender plan for the commission. The UN end of that target is the Commission on the Status of Women, and CEDAW, the women’s convention Australia has already signed. UN Women with its Governor General patron is the agency that carries it.
Immigration is the next one. It does not sit in the election pack. The lock is the Refugee Convention. The offices are UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration. Australia helped found IOM and renewed the deal in 2026. DFAT holds the seat. Home Affairs pays most of the money, and Home Affairs stamps the visas.
So a minister can say the numbers will fall. The stamps will keep moving regardless.
Speech is the information arm. In Europe it is the Democracy Shield, a fact-checker centre, and the Digital Services Act, which is how platforms get pushed.
At the UN it is UNESCO, under the name information integrity, climate included. Here it is eSafety and the digital duty of care. IDEA’s disinformation playbook is the election-office version of the same label.
So climate is IDEA and the climate department. Gender is BRIDGE and the UN women’s file. Immigration is the Convention, UNHCR, IOM and Home Affairs. Speech is the Shield, UNESCO and eSafety.
The AEC is on the BRIDGE deed with IDEA and the UN. DFAT sits on the councils. That is the set.
And if it's all there, charged and ready, who to say they are not all ready running the country?
* I'll add the breakdown in the comments throughout the day 👇🧵
Graham Young retweeted
Not sure how many picked up on it or it went under the radar, but Labor Communications Minister, Anika Well’s made a DIRECT ADMISSION that this Labor government and eKaren are already engaging FOREIGN agents to engage in sock puppet warfare against Australians.
They want the DDoC laws so they don’t get arrested for doing it in Australia!
This government is hostile.
Graham Young retweeted
The Bureau of Meteorology has been fiddling historical data to fit the narrative of global warming.
The BOM has 1800 staff.
Its budget is $614 million a year.
Its website rebuild cost $96 million.
But it has been exposed by two volunteer researchers.
cfact.org/2026/10/18/boms-sc…
Graham Young retweeted
Suppression of speech and efforts to force “social cohesion” are aggravating factors to extremism and radicalisation.
If we want a truly respectful and civil society and debate, we need more speech, not less.
This is a pathetic and reprehensible position.
Graham Young retweeted
I don't understand why everyone is so outraged over the Mecca executions.
This is what they do.
This is islamic sharia law in practice.
I despise it of course, but unlike most of you I don't pretend to be shocked. This is literally how their religion works, especially in Mecca.
I'm a lot more surprised that some of you seem to think sharia law is some kind of compassionate and empathetic legal system that is supposed to spare people. It's like you haven't paid attention at all.
Graham Young retweeted
Islamophobes are accusing Abdul El-Sayed of being pro–Muslim Brotherhood JUST BECAUSE:
• His mother worked for an organization later designated by the U.S. Treasury for supporting terrorist groups.
• His sister-in-law appeared on a federal terrorism watchlist during the Obama administration.
• His father-in-law held leadership roles in organizations accused of Brotherhood connections.
• Those organizations were named unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case.
• His half-sister celebrated October 7 online.
• The same half-sister wrote that their family had “long been MB” and described their mother’s Brotherhood activism.
• His campaign buddy Hasan Piker said America deserved 9/11.
• He wanted to avoid commenting on Khamenei’s death because some potential voters were grieving.
• He signed a statement urging Morsi’s government to purge Egypt’s media and police.
• He compared Oklahoma’s Sharia-ban measure to historical atrocities, including the Trail of Tears.
• He praised the work of Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder.
• He defended his friend Mohamed Soltan, whose father was a senior Brotherhood figure.
• His campaign received donations from CAIR-associated individuals, and his father-in-law contributed $300,000 to a supporting PAC.
• He argued that a Brotherhood-led Egypt would not necessarily resemble Iran.
You’re confusing what happened with what you’re allowed to notice
Graham Young retweeted
This level of lying is not normal.
According to Anne Ally we are seeing huge economic growth, with an average of 900 companies created each day, 27,490 per month, or 1.4 million since Labor took office.
While the sad reality is that an average of 1,000 shut down each day, roughly 30,000–31,000 per month, or 1.46 million since Labor took office.
Labor is a criminal cartel, not a democratically elected party.
Graham Young retweeted
Australia has more land, and fewer people, than any continent on the planet, other than the penguins of the South Pole.
We should have the cheapest housing the world, not some of the most expensive.
Since May 2022, housing affordability has halved. The cost of a mortgage as a percentage of disposable household income has increased by 124%
We are heading in the wrong direction.
Graham Young retweeted
BREAKING: The Australian Federal Police Commissioner, who said the Bondi attack was “not religiously motivated”, stopped short of saying Jews are safer in Australia now than before the radical Islamic Bondi terrorist attack.
Asked directly whether Jews are safer than they were on 14 December, Krissy Barrett would not say yes. Pressed again, she said the outlook is “very volatile, and that’s the truth of it. We have seen a rise in antisemitism.”
Looking to 2027, she expects the environment to “continue to be complex”.
That is the nation’s top cop, a year after 15 people were murdered at a Hanukkah gathering at Bondi, still refusing to claim the community is safer.
In the same interview with The Australian she said Islamic fundamentalism remains the biggest terror risk over the next year.
The local threat from Hamas supporters is not declining. The Iran war, she said, is giving people “causes or motivations to latch on to”.
She also flagged angry, isolated young boys looking for meaning as a growing part of the caseload.
She has ordered a second review of AFP files on hate preachers, after lawyers coached them on “what they can say to just scrape under the criminal threshold”. She wants prosecutions. She has not delivered them.
On the royal commission she expects Virginia Bell’s findings to be “highly contested”, with “very different views”.
She would not say the AFP will endorse every recommendation. She denied advising Albanese against a royal commission, after the Prime Minister spent weeks citing “actual experts” while resisting one.
She also would not say whether Pauline Hanson’s comments on Islam make Australians less safe. What she would say is that respectful debate is “waning”, the extremes are getting more extreme, and that makes the AFP’s job harder.
So the record is this.
After Bondi she told the country the killers had aligned with a terrorist organisation, “not a religion”.
Ten months on she still will not say Jews are safer, still names Islamic fundamentalism as the lead threat, and still has hate preachers sitting just under the criminal line.
Jews were told the threat was not religious. They are now being told the threat is volatile, elevated, and not going away.
Why won’t they address the elephant in the room which is Radical Islam?
Graham Young retweeted
AUSTRALIA - LEAST VALUED CITIZENSHIP ON THE PLANET.
Only four years residence here and we hand out the prize of Australian Citizenship. How does this compare?
Minimum residence for citizenship ....
30 years - 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
25 years - 🇶🇦 Qatar; 🇧🇭 Bahrain
20 years - 🇰🇼 Kuwait; 🇴🇲 Oman; 🇦🇩 Andorra; 🇺🇬 Uganda
15 years - 🇹🇩 Chad; 🇬🇲 Gambia; 🇯🇴 Jordan; 🇳🇵 Nepal; 🇳🇬 Nigeria
14 years - 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda
12 years - 🇮🇳 India; 🇲🇻 Maldives
11 years - 🇸🇨 Seychelles
10 years - 🇦🇹 Austria; 🇮🇹 Italy; 🇯🇵 Japan; 🇪🇸 Spain; 🇨🇭 Switzerland; 🇲🇨 Monaco; 🇱🇧 Lebanon; 🇲🇾 Malaysia; 🇬🇪 Georgia; 🇮🇶 Iraq; 🇱🇹 Lithuania; 🇱🇻 Latvia; 🇦🇴 Angola; 🇧🇼 Botswana; 🇪🇷 Eritrea; 🇬🇦 Gabon; 🇨🇬 Republic of Congo; 🇨🇫 Central African Republic; 🇰🇲 Comoros; 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea; 🇩🇯 Djibouti; 🇲🇬 Madagascar; 🇲🇱 Mali; 🇳🇪 Niger; 🇸🇸 South Sudan; 🇸🇩 Sudan; 🇹🇿 Tanzania; 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe; and others
9 years - 🇩🇰 Denmark
8 years - 🇫🇮 Finland; 🇸🇪 Sweden; 🇵🇱 Poland; 🇸🇰 Slovakia; 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina; 🇳🇴 Norway
7 years - 🇬🇷 Greece; 🇵🇹?*; 🇩🇿 Algeria; 🇧🇾 Belarus; 🇰🇭 Cambodia
6 years - 🇵🇹 Portugal; 🇮🇪 Ireland
5 years - 🇬🇧 United Kingdom; 🇺🇸 United States; 🇳🇿 New Zealand; 🇳🇱 Netherlands; 🇧🇪 Belgium; 🇫🇷 France; 🇩🇪 Germany; 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia; and many others
4 years - 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA
Graham Young retweeted
As a Palestinian who refuses to parrot our leadership’s lies, I have to say it bluntly: Telling Mizrahi Jews - Jews from Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, and the rest of the Arab world, that they are doing “ethnic cleansing” to us is the gaslight of the century.
Let’s start with facts. Mizrahi Jews didn’t “come from Europe.” They lived in the Middle East for thousands of years, long before Islam, long before Arab conquest, long before any modern state. Their ancestors spoke the same ancient Hebrew mentioned in the Qur’an’s stories, they prayed facing Jerusalem, and their communities in Babylon, Damascus, and Sana’a existed for over 2,500 years. They are as indigenous to this region as the olive trees, as native to the Middle East as we are.
When Arab states turned against them in the 20th century, after Israel was established, they were ethnically cleansed: homes looted, businesses seized, citizenship revoked, synagogues burned, people lynched. Nearly a million Jews were expelled from Arab lands. Most fled to Israel with nothing.
And now, decades later, our leadership dares to call them the colonizers? The same families who were driven from Baghdad, Aleppo, and Tripoli - who rebuilt their lives from refugee camps in Israel, are accused of committing the same crime that was done to them. That’s not just hypocrisy; it’s historical amnesia.
If we truly want justice, we have to stop gaslighting our neighbors and start acknowledging that their story is Middle Eastern too.
Our liberation won’t come from denying theirs.
Graham Young retweeted
'The algorithms' didn't create these ideological problems in our youth.
The education system, the education union, and government policy did.
Politicians and their union mates set a curriculum that deliberately teaches children to view the world entirely through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, victimhood, oppression, and existential calamity.
Schools teach 'blood guilt' as the default for anyone born of colonial descent.
Teachers refuse to teach a complete or balanced view of collectivism and instead tell kids - for more than a decade of their formative years - to hate capitalism, be suspicious of democracy, reject Western Enlightenment, oppose free speech, and demand socialism instead of opportunity.
'Work' is viewed as a form of slavery and oppression instead of building a legacy and contributing to society.
Kids are told that if they make the government all-powerful, that government will perform the parental role of providing wealth and safety.
Social media might have contributed to a short attention span - but that is nothing compared to the damage done by politicians and educators.
And before you defend teachers - those teachers protested for 'climate change', for 'BLM', and for 'Palestine' - but when was the last time the teachers' union came out to demand increased history, english, maths, and science? When did they EVER march to protect the innocence of childhood against radical gender politics?
The same government that destroyed the minds of an entire generation now wants to blame the internet and censor it so that those children - now young adults - will never know what knowledge they were denied.
Graham Young retweeted
To the shameless liars and absolute morons comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, here's a brief explanation of why you're moral and intellectual vacuums.
The Nazis conducted an industrial, international campaign to murder an entire ethnicity, killing about 63% of European Jews in just four years. This was an industrial slaughter that occurred in two dozen states and covered three continents. It's something unheard of in human history.
This was not done as part of a war against a Jewish political entity since Jews were citizens of many different states, including states that were friendly to Germany. In fact, German Jews served in the German military with distinction just 20 years before. This changed nothing.
Most of the Jews who died in the holocaust were not killed as a result of fighting, bombardment or armies rampaging through towns. They were murdered in camps specifically designed for the purpose of killing as many people as possible with scientific efficiency.
Israel is fighting a war against an entity that is a state in everything but name. In fact, according to most countries, it is a state. People die in wars between states. Specifically, in the 13 most intense months of the fighting, 43,000 or 0.8% of the Palestinian population was killed. Today, after 3 years of war, it's 1.3% of the Palestinian population.
More people died in a single year of the Syrian civil war. More people died died in the first month of the American invasion of Iraq. The fight against ISIS had similar casualty numbers.
The Allied war against the Axis caused far more death and destruction in Germany and Japan than this war. Nevertheless, no one calls it a genocide because these are clearly war casualties, not a project to exterminate either nation.
While Israel is fighting a war against the Palestinian political entity, there's no persecution of Arabs because of their ethnicity. Millions of Arabs live in Israel as full citizens. Thousands of non-hostile Arabs live in areas of Lebanon and Syria currently occupied by the IDF. Clearly, Israel is fighting a war against a political entity, not trying to exterminate an ethnicity.
Comparing the holocaust with the Gaza war requires either an amazing level of ignorance (which is always a choice in the 21st century), or absolute, shameless evil.
Graham Young retweeted
Francesca Albanese has now apologized for an even more egregious mistake, but this is not the first time she has wrongly stated that antisemitism includes discrimination against Arabs.
The term "anti-Semitism" was invented by German agitator Wilhelm Marr in 1879, to rebrand ancient hatred for Jews as socially acceptable racial "science." The eugenics movement was in its infancy, just coming into fashion.
Anti-Semitism referred, specifically, to Jews. That is why the Nazis murdered 6 million of us in the most industrialized genocide in history.
Notably, the Nazis collaborated with Arab leaders, and hoped to bring the Final Solution to Arab lands. In Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, and Algeria, they opened brutal work camps where thousands of Jews died. Arabs and Europeans alike staffed these camps and enacted immense cruelty on Jewish prisoner-slaves.
Not all Arabs participated actively in enacting Nazi policies. But many did. The Nazi incursion into Arab lands and the policies they enacted there against Jews did not prompt an organized resistance from Arab inhabitants. The Nazis were defeated in North Africa and the Middle East by the Allied forces.
Francesca Albanese has demonstrated her hate for Jews many times.
Now she has demonstrated her extreme incompetence.
Someone who does not understand basic elements of the modern history of the Middle East cannot, and must not, participate in shaping its future.
Audio Credit: UN Watch
Graham Young retweeted
Popular Muslim family therapist Dr. Mona Sobhy went on the UK’s Muslim Brotherhood channel to explain the “trauma” Jews inflicted on Muslims.
Her version of history: Jews used to kidnap Muslim children to consume their blood at Passover.
She said oppressed and victimized Muslims had to live in fear and lock their children away from the outside world. That, she claimed, is why those poor Muslim men defended their children by committing pogroms against the Jewish minority. The Muslim men targeted the community, murdered as many as they could, looted their property, and raped and tortured to death women and children for being Jews. Eventually they wiped out Jewish communities across the Middle East and North Africa.
This ran as programming for children and adults.
Blood libel. Medieval Jew-hatred. A sermon that turns genocide into self-defense.
Useful idiots who back the “Free Palestine” jihad movement should watch this.
An offended Arab asylum seeker declared war on British women and girls for violating Islam’s modesty rules.
He says women should be denied freedom and basic rights. According to him, Sharia applies to Muslims and non-Muslims alike, and Britain is not exempt.
He described arriving in Britain as daily trauma, Islamophobic abuse and mental torture. One example of the “violence” he faced was seeing the Spice Girls.
Where he grew up, females over the age of six have legs and mouths but do not move or speak freely. They do not form unauthorised relationships or leave the house without a male guardian’s permission. If they break dress or modesty rules in public, the household becomes a target for harassment and intimidation. They are shamed until the male guardian “cleanses” the family honour by killing the disobedient female.
This is the social norm in the Arab world, where thousands of women and girls are murdered every year in so-called honour killings.
In his Islamic worldview, Britain is not safe because men let women off the leash, as if women were wild zoo animals that cannot be released into human society.
He explains why British women will be banned from the public square so Muslims no longer have to endure the “torture” of seeing and hearing them in total violation of Islamic laws.
He is not hiding the supremacist agenda of Islam as a colonial project. Music is the enemy. Women’s freedom is the enemy.
This is a small glimpse into the Muslim voter base the current Labour government is so desperate to win.
Graham Young retweeted
🚨 PASTOR THANKS NETANYAHU AS CHRISTIANS ARE BUTCHERED IN NIGERIA
Pastor Ezekiel Dachomo appeals to the U.S. and Israel:
“I have to thank you, Benjamin Netanyahu. My government… did not speak about the genocide in Nigeria. But they were able to stand and speak for the Palestinians., and today the Terrorists have butchered yet another set of Christians.”
Graham Young retweeted
"New legislation being field tested in Australia would give the government the power to run AI bot networks/sock puppets, apparently to secretly influence & manipulate online debates."
This is absolutely insane and needs to be stopped.
h/t @RouleurCapital
The censorship industrial complex is going on the offensive. New legislation being field tested in Australia would give the government the power to run AI bot networks/sock puppets, apparently to secretly influence & manipulate online debates. Creepy af. H/t @NAffects @MikeNayna
Graham Young retweeted
Apologies. Had to take a break from X. I know I missed a lot yesterday.
Unfortunately the build up in worldwide Jew hatred got to me this week.
Seeing the leaders at the UN just lie and lie. Macron lying about Hamas not being in the West Bank and covering for Islamist terrorists just two days after a FRENCH CITIZEN was murdered in front of his kid by a Hamas Operative in the West Bank.
Hearing islamists like Erdogan talk like Hitler and it being accepted.
Seeing the Emir of Qatar who has sponsored and harboured Hamas leaders, funded a wave of Islamist propaganda, spread blood libels about Jews.
And seeing the results of this firsthand with the foiling of a Terrorist Attack on the Jewish community in Manchester on Yom Kippur, exactly a year after Heaton park terror attack.
I have pretty thick skin myself. When people throw their Jew hatred at me on here; I can deal with it. It’s become water off a ducks back.
But now knowing that there is direct correlation between the rhetoric of world leaders and attacks on Jews worldwide, seeing that happen for 3 years and thinking it will slow down; these leaders know better right? They know their lying about Israel is getting Jews hurt?
But then this week seeing the rhetoric not slow down but ESCALATE to the level it has.
Knowing that our people will suffer more hatred in the real world.
It got to me.
Anyway.
But on top of that - Seeing what’s happening with the illegal migrant invasion of the UK, the millions spent on motorcades and escorts to take them to their luxury hotels and then Shabana Mahmoud and Labour turn those who speak out against it into the villain.
Just the cherry on top.
Graham Young retweeted
"There are now more than 3 million temporary visa holders in Australia, effectively creating an underclass of migrant workers who now count for more than 16 per cent of the working-age population."
smh.com.au/politics/federal/…
Graham Young retweeted
Honored to have my research mentioned by @netanyahu in his address to the UNGA. Israel has in fact implemented more civilian harm mitigation measures (many that no nation has ever even imagined/attemped) than any military in history.
The other facts in his speech were also spot on. Israel has not only implemented extraordinary precautions in urban warfare to prevent civilian harm while Hamas has done everything it can to increase civilian harm, there is no genocide, actually the opposite of genocide in Gaza, Israel provided tons of food, water, medical supplies, facilitated immunizations for the entire populations, field hospitals, built new water lines, electricity, got patients to hospitals outside of Gaza, and much more.