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:
3 August 2023
3 MINS
Calls for Australia to come into line with countries that have banned smacking. Australia’s failure to outlaw the smacking of children is a violation of their human rights, according to a team of legal scholars and psychologists who, themselves, need a good old-fashioned smackdown. The [...]
2 August 2023
2 MINS
... and decides it's because of 'aspirational' immigrants. The Sydney Telegraph promised to tell us “why Aussie private school attendance is soaring”. The paper reported that 35.5 per cent of Australian children now attend private schools. That figure, according to an ABC report, has doubled [...]
31 July 2023
2.6 MINS
National Broadcaster reports that gas is no longer plentiful. Gas is no longer plentiful! Also, the ABC think you’re an idiot. Our national broadcaster reported yesterday that the Victorian Government will ban gas connections in all new homes from January 1, 2024. Why? Because gas [...]
31 July 2023
3.8 MINS
The former PM blasts what he describes as "scare-tainment". Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has accused Sky News of “terrifying” people about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. He told the ABC’s Radio National program that Sky News was creating “anxiety” in the community by constantly [...]
21 July 2023
1.8 MINS
Newsweek poll finds almost half of millennials think so! A poll published in Newsweek has found that 44 percent of America’s 25-34-year-olds believe misgendering someone should be a criminal offence. I’m starting to believe that being a millennial should be a crime. My dog is [...]
20 July 2023
2.4 MINS
When Donald Trump ordered McDonald's to the White House back in 2019, the media went nuts. It was tacky. It was classless. It was unbecoming, they said. But when cocaine was found in Joe Biden’s White House this month, the media were completely incurious. Someone [...]
19 July 2023
2.6 MINS
The Catholic Bishop heading up World Youth Day has said he does not want to convert young people to Christianity. I guess World Youth Day will just be a hippie festival paid for by the Catholic Church. It certainly raises the question, what exactly is [...]
18 July 2023
4.5 MINS
Last Friday was International Look at Me Day, or, as some like to call it, International Non-Binary Day. For the uninitiated, the LGBTIQ+ Health Australia define a non-binary person as: “ … someone who does not identify as exclusively a man or a woman. Someone [...]
14 July 2023
3.8 MINS
You just know things are bad when they start shifting the goalposts. What do you do when you’re losing the match? Well, if you’re the Albanese government -- presiding over runaway inflation and rising interest rates -- you move the goalposts. You start boasting about [...]
12 July 2023
0.8 MINS
The world is a trans woman's oyster. It’s official. The best-looking woman in Holland is a man. Well, of course. Ever since Caitlyn Jenner was named Glamour Magazine’s Woman of the Year back in 2015, we’ve all known that dudes make better chicks than chicks. [...]
11 July 2023
2.4 MINS
Victorian Senator calls for multicultural quotas. Labor Senator Jana Stewart is pushing her party to pick culturally diverse candidates under a quota plan to boost the number of parliamentarians from non-English speaking backgrounds. The Indigenous Senator told the Sydney Morning Herald the Labor Party needed [...]
7 July 2023
2.2 MINS
The number of genderqueer Victorian police has tripled in 12 months. The number of Victorian police identifying as “non-binary” has increased three-fold in the past 12 months, which raises the big question… is it something in the water? According to last year’s Victoria Police annual [...]
6 July 2023
1.5 MINS
Power prices are never coming down. Millions of Australians are right now struggling with the cost of living, not least of which is the cost of power. And it wasn’t meant to be this way. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said 97 times in the lead-up [...]
4 July 2023
1.6 MINS
Delegates to Labor’s upcoming national conference will urge Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to provide free abortions across Australia. Not only should abortions be free, but delegates from the powerful Emily’s List faction will insist that publicly funded hospitals be forced to provide them. Oh, and [...]
29 June 2023
0.4 MINS
Editor's Note: Commentator James Macpherson cuts to the chase as he reflects on what Kamala Harris' latest exhortation on abortion really means for Christians. There is no compromise possible between Christianity and support for abortion, which involves killing human lives in the womb. Abortion violates [...]
26 June 2023
9.1 MINS
The Daily Mail took aim at Echo Church in Sydney on Thursday with a blistering article that left readers in no doubt about where the publication stands on Christianity and people of faith. The headline read: Inside Australia's hateful anti-gay mega-church: Young church pastor says [...]
23 June 2023
2.2 MINS
“First synthetic human embryo raises ethical questions,” said the BBC headline. You think?! Scientists have managed to grow a human embryo from stem cells rather than from an egg and sperm. The plan is to use the embryos for research. But don’t worry. The BBC [...]
22 June 2023
1.4 MINS
The only US city with an all-Muslim governing body and mayor has banned the display of Pride flags on all public buildings. Holy intersectional conundrum! How will the progressive Left resolve this dispute between their two favourite pets? Will the Left applaud the Muslim stance [...]
7 June 2023
1.9 MINS
Children’s television program Sesame Street is celebrating Gay Pride month. This of course raises the question, why does Sesame Street want to celebrate divergent sexual orientations with your children? The educational children’s show put out a tweet at the weekend announcing… “This Pride Month let's [...]
6 June 2023
2.3 MINS
Gender botherer Dylan Mulvaney has come out as a lesbian, which means he’s really just a straight white guy with a strange wardrobe. Poor Bud Light. They destroyed their entire brand for nothing. Dylan began life as a gay man. Then he was queer. Then [...]





