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:
13 March 2024
1.6 MINS
I suspect all those scientists who prefer not to say whether sex is binary are more worried about their next government grant than about chromosomes. No civilisation that willingly chooses to be this ignorant can ever thrive.
8 March 2024
2 MINS
"The Zone of Interest" is one of the most powerful films I have seen, not in spite of its mendacity, but because of it. The film focuses entirely on the family of concentration camp commandant Rudolf Höss as they go about their daily lives in the shadow of Auschwitz.
4 March 2024
1.5 MINS
It took five months, but we finally found an event Hamas supporters in this country are not allowed to ruin. Eight pro-Palestinian protestors were arrested after storming onto the street during Saturday’s gay Mardi Gras parade.
29 February 2024
0.7 MINS
Nike has announced massive staff cuts less than a year after signing transgendered menace Dylan Mulvaney to promote their women’s sports bras. Colour me surprised.
27 February 2024
3.2 MINS
The many failings of Scott Morrison should not diminish his final message to the Australian people. A speech that champions the continual influence and voice of the Judeo-Christian faith.
27 February 2024
2.8 MINS
England’s National Health Service has just insisted that milk from “transgendered women” is as healthy for babies as the real thing. Yep. This is the latest grievance for the LBGTQ crowd … Trans milk is milk!
22 February 2024
1.6 MINS
News this past week of a West Australian farmer facing jail for upsetting the Rainbow Serpent shows just how pagan our secular culture has become.
9 February 2024
1.1 MINS
The story goes that when a father discovered his daughter would be sharing a dorm with a male student — who identified as female — he drove from interstate to remove her from the school.
7 February 2024
1.9 MINS
Work on Australia’s most expensive resources project has been halted because of the danger it poses to Spirit Whales. Woodside Energy Group has been ordered to halt work on a $16b gas project that, if completed, will power 8.5 million homes for the next 30 years.
5 February 2024
2.1 MINS
After a three-month investigation employing expert contortionists, the NSW police have twisted and turned until finally arriving at a position where they can confidently say that no one heard what they thought they heard on October 9.
2 February 2024
1.7 MINS
Joe Biden’s America is a place where good is punished and evil is praised. Peaceful pro-life protestors now face 11 years' jail for the crime of singing Christian hymns outside a Tennessee abortion facility in 2021.
31 January 2024
4.5 MINS
Since when did rebellion against God make sense? The culture war is not guided by principle since it is, at heart, a rebellion against all principle — being cosmic in nature.
30 January 2024
3.2 MINS
The Left has turned the celebration of Australia Day into a counter-culture move. Whereas once waving the Aussie flag around was a bit daggy, it is now the ultimate act of rebellion.
23 January 2024
2.5 MINS
Figures released recently show the number of Victorian government employees has jumped by a whopping 60 per cent over the past 15 years. How to explain Victoria’s need for so many more bureaucrats? It wouldn’t have anything to do with Victoria being under Labor rule for most of that time, would it?
18 January 2024
4 MINS
Where is the insistence, the demanding, the table-thumping in global forums that until Hamas release the hostages, there is nothing to talk about?
17 January 2024
1.8 MINS
Just days after accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice, South Africa has sacked its Under-19s cricket captain for the crime of being Jewish.
5 January 2024
3.1 MINS
Anti-Israel protestors — both here in Australia and overseas — have used Christmas to claim that Jesus was not in fact a Jew, but a Palestinian. Attempting to weaponise Christian identity in support of a terrorist organisation by claiming that Jesus was not a Jew is deceitful.
4 January 2024
0.4 MINS
Union leaders have warned the government that a religious discrimination bill must not allow faith-based schools to hire staff based on their faith.
3 January 2024
3 MINS
2023 was the year we learned that when Islamic terrorists take babies hostage, far more people around the world will march in support of the terrorists than in support of the babies.
2 January 2024
0.4 MINS
The ABC’s racially charged fireworks; men in female boxing bouts; and the Australia Day wars started early this year. I spoke about all of that last night with Sky News contributor Evelyn Rae and Campion College lecturer Stephen Chavura.





