Evan Mulholland
Evan’s opinion pieces and comments have appeared in The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Herald Sun, The Weekly Times, Crikey, The Spectator, The Courier Mail and the Hobart Mercury. He has also appeared as a commentator on Sky News Australia, Network Ten, ABC News Radio and 3AW.
Evan attended Marcellin College, Bulleen before studying a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Drama & Theatre at La Trobe University, where he went on to become President of the Australian Liberal Students Federation.
Evan takes a keen interest in all things theatre, he was President of ARC Theatre Company for several years and currently serves on its board. He is also an avid St Kilda member and cricket fan.
Follow him on Twitter @evmulholland.
29 April 2022
ABC Probe Of Anchor Fauziah Ibrahim Over Her ‘Bias’ Twitter Lists Exposes The Network’s Double Standards
This week the ABC confirmed that Weekend Breakfast co-host Fauziah Ibrahim has been benched from her on-camera duties after her social media activities raised eyebrows among the Twitter left, while the broadcaster reviews her “recent social media activity” and examines if it has breached the public broadcaster’s guidelines. Her sin, was creating Twitter lists, which she thought were private, listing
22 March 2022
Morrison’s Proposed Ministry Of Truth Is Authoritarian And Dangerous
Plans by the Morrison Government to give more power to bureaucrats at the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to act against ‘big tech’ on misinformation and disinformation are a draconian threat to the free speech of every Australian, the Institute of Public Affairs has warned. “This is Scott Morrison’s Finkelstein moment. In the same way Julia Gillard and Stephen
17 February 2022
What’s Worse Than A Lockdown?
‘Worse than lockdown’ is a headline that has been used far too often in the media recently. That’s right, while most families have been locked up for the better part of two years, there are actual people who believe that the pain inflicted by the Omicron wave resulted in a worse situation than the hellscape that was Victoria’s lockdowns. The Western
18 January 2022
BBC’s Funding Axe Proves The Days Of State-Run TV Are Finished
The ABC was meant to be a market failure broadcaster, but given it now slithers into every corner and crevice of Australia’s media market, that reason for being isn’t applicable anymore, writes Evan Mulholland. The ABC, as a subscription service, is not as farfetched an idea as you might think. This week Boris Johnson’s Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announced that funding to
18 January 2022
Head Of State, Or Elite Race?
I am a republican at heart, and desperately hope to see an Australian republic in my lifetime, but I would be inclined to campaign against the Australian Choice model announced last week by the Australian Republic Movement, as would many republican-minded conservatives. According to the ARM, the Australian Choice model would allow every state and territory parliament to nominate one candidate
27 December 2021
Put Some Speed Into NBN
The National Broadband Network (NBN) should ultimately go down as one of the worst conceived policy projects in Australian history. On these pages recently Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese criticised the Coalition’s approach to the NBN while acknowledging that it “helped Australians to work from home during Covid.” If Labor had have won the 2013 Federal Election and its fibre to
7 December 2021
Long Game Can Turn Underdog To Premier
As a lifelong Saints fan I was struck by former St Kilda coach Grant Thomas’ recent reflection on the club now holding the unfortunate record of longest premiership drought after Melbourne’s grand final win. He said “there are two types of teams in the competition – one that’s in the premiership business and the others that are sort of playing AFL.”
16 August 2021
New Polling Shows Strong Belief Media Covid Coverage Has Been Alarmist
Covid-19 is addictive, not just for the political class but for Australia’s mainstream media. At the beginning of the pandemic, people flocked to traditional media to see the dramatic scenes in Italy, Wuhan, fearing what would happen when COVID-19 reached our shores. It was understandable for the media to share the same fears of mainstream Australians. Fast forward to 2021. COVID-19 in Australia has a
26 July 2021
ABC Spends Millions Promoting Itself
A freedom of information request undertaken by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has revealed that the ABC has spent a record $7.2 million on advertising from 1 July 2020 and 21 May 2021, up from $5.5 million in the 2019-2020 financial year. “In the midst of a global pandemic, when revenues in private media fell through the
20 July 2021
Climate For Conspiracies
A new diatribe demonstrates how demonising opponents creates a climate hostile to reasoned policy debate, writes IPA Communications Director Evan Mulholland. Marian Wilkinson is described on the inside of her new book, The Carbon Club, as a “multi-award winning journalist”, but many of the claims read like the ramblings of a conspiracy theorist on Twitter. What it fails to accept
