James Macpherson
James Macpherson is a sought-after international speaker with a background in journalism at the Courier-Mail and Daily Telegraph. He previously pastored a significant church in Australia and South Africa. A well-recognised Australian journalist, James is a regular contributor to The Spectator and a host at Sky News. You can subscribe to receive all his articles on faith, culture and politics at his Substack.
Articles by James Macpherson:
28 December 2023
3.2 MINS
A report commissioned by the Albanese Government recommends stripping religious schools of their tax deductibility status while making that same status available to activist LBGTQ groups.
19 December 2023
1.4 MINS
The New South Wales State Government urged Sydneysiders to limit their use of electricity last week as temperatures pushed into the 40s. Energy Minister Penny Sharpe said the lack of power was due to two factors — high demand, and maintenance issues at a coal-powered fire station.
6 December 2023
2.1 MINS
Anthony Albanese’s worst nightmare has come true. A convicted sex predator, released from detention just weeks ago, has been charged with the indecent assault of a woman in Adelaide.
23 November 2023
3.7 MINS
I’m thinking of moving to Argentina. The locals have sacked their socialist president and elected former soccer player Javier Milei. With inflation running at more than 140 per cent and two in five people living in poverty, can you blame them?
20 November 2023
2.7 MINS
Last week the Opposition Leader was effectively running the country. With Anthony Albanese too busy jetting off overseas to be bothered with governing, Peter Dutton stood and took charge.
16 November 2023
5.5 MINS
The barbarity let loose in Israel on October 7 exists right here in the West, only barely restrained. We are in a civilisational battle. The question is whether we will admit it in time to do something about it.
15 November 2023
3.8 MINS
God created the family for the propagation of life. He created government for the protection of citizens. And He created the church for the proclamation of the Gospel.
14 November 2023
9 MINS
The world is at this moment grappling with a succession of challenges that, if not properly addressed, will cause everything we know to spiral hopelessly out of control.
13 November 2023
0.5 MINS
Nicola Collins' pet ‘Fat Boy’, a 3.5-metre-long albino crocodile, was gifted to her husband Weed as “payment for a concreting job”.
9 November 2023
2.2 MINS
A German kindergarten named after Holocaust victim Anne Frank will change its name in order to be “more inclusive”. Of whom? Nazis?
3 November 2023
3.1 MINS
The mainstream media is in denial of the existential threat Hamas poses to Israel and the Jews, framing Hamas as freedom fighters instead of ruthless terrorists.
1 November 2023
4.1 MINS
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (whom we interviewed on The Late Debate a few weeks ago) has just released his plan to defeat Hamas.
31 October 2023
2.9 MINS
When Stan Grant complains that the Voice was “so inoffensive people found it easy to say No to,” all he does is demonstrate that he still doesn’t get it!
31 October 2023
3.1 MINS
While thousands of Muslims marched through the streets of London chanting anti-semitic slogans last week, British police were busy fining a Christian woman for praying — in her head — outside an abortion clinic.
30 October 2023
2.5 MINS
UK television aired an interview last week with a British Palestinian woman complaining about the evils of Islamophobia in England. But ITV didn’t tell viewers that the woman had, just days earlier, publicly cheered the Hamas slaughter of Jews as a “moment of triumph”.
27 October 2023
2.2 MINS
You pick up The New York Times and start reading about a Palestinian Islamic Jihadi missile hitting a parking lot and get the impression that an Israeli Defence Force missile hit a hospital.
24 October 2023
5.8 MINS
‘Beheading babies is bad, but what about …’ is not the way a sentence should ever begin. And yet that was exactly the message from the Australian Greens, who refused to support a motion condemning Hamas unless that motion also condemned Israel.
20 October 2023
1.7 MINS
Scientists using supercomputers to create models of the distant future have warned that the formation of a supercontinent could wipe out us all out in 250 million years.
19 October 2023
2.4 MINS
On Tuesday, fully 100 per cent of Government senators (Labor and Greens) refused to support an inquiry into the sexual abuse of Indigenous children.
16 October 2023
2.7 MINS
The Australian Capital Territory was the only jurisdiction in the country where a majority of Australians voted for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.





