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:
31 October 2022
2.1 MINS
Despite Labor's promises to address the rapidly increasing cost of living, their perplexing power policies keep driving the price of electricity up. I cannot work out which is more incredible -- the claims this government makes, or the fact that this government expects Australians to [...]
28 October 2022
2.3 MINS
As the USA grapples with rising costs of living and the world teeters on the brink of major war, Biden chose to have an interview with a transgender TikTok star. Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are choking on their Weetbix this morning in laughter at [...]
27 October 2022
3.5 MINS
The mob are insistent that Australia’s richest woman must repudiate the racist comments of her now-deceased father. Lang Hancock said in a 1984 television interview that Aboriginals should be sterilised; a disgraceful comment, to be sure. And now -- only 38 years later -- the [...]
26 October 2022
2.3 MINS
The Left love eternal, collective guilt. That’s why they demanded last week that mining magnate Gina Rinehart renounce statements her father made 40 years ago about Aboriginal people. But Gina understands she inherited her father’s business, not his sins. So -- rightly in my view [...]
25 October 2022
2.7 MINS
New South Wales Health Minister Brad Hazzard has announced he will be quitting politics. No, that’s not thunder, that’s the sound of New South Wales clapping. Hazzard’s carry-on during the pandemic was a disgrace. The former science teacher bullied and belittled the public as if [...]
25 October 2022
2.5 MINS
Microsoft has unveiled the latest gay Pride flag. The Pride flag has had more updates than Windows, so it makes sense that Bill Gates' team have had a go at it. Apparently, Microsoft designed the flag by having an intern chug paint and then vomit [...]
24 October 2022
2.1 MINS
A Hobart mayoral candidate has been accused of mocking transgendered people because she signed off an email by identifying as a frog. In the email addressed to a non-binary Hobart council member, who uses the pronouns they/them, Louise Elliot identified herself as ‘Kermit (Louise) Elliot’ [...]
21 October 2022
2.3 MINS
Our energy policy is one only idiots would buy. I’m old enough to remember when they called Australia the clever country. These days we’re the class dunce. Energy policy -- or in other words the pursuance of a net zero nirvana promoted by globalists who [...]
20 October 2022
2.2 MINS
We may have alienated an ally, but look at the new friends we have! The Albanese government’s latest foreign policy move has received generous praise… from terrorists. The decision to reverse Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has pleased all the [...]
19 October 2022
2.6 MINS
Liberal supporters disappointed that Scott Morrison wasn’t interested in fighting the Culture Wars will be dismayed to discover that Peter Dutton seems intent on fighting them, but for the other side. The Opposition leader took time out from not opposing Net Zero madness to vilify [...]
18 October 2022
2 MINS
Staff at a Melbourne boys' school have been told not to use gender-specific terms in order to be more inclusive. I know what you’re thinking: “More inclusive of what? It’s a school exclusively for boys!” But you’re only thinking that way because you’re normal. And [...]
17 October 2022
2.3 MINS
The Green Gremlin has shocked her supporters by insisting Germany made a big “mistake” by shutting down its nuclear reactors. Personally, I think the bigger mistake was allowing a Swedish teenager to dictate world energy policy. But I digress. The Goblin of Doom’s sudden change [...]
14 October 2022
2.4 MINS
You thought you were going to die from Covid. Then you feared Long Covid. But it turns out that Medium Covid could be the most dangerous Covid of all, according to fright bat Dr Benjamin Mazer over at The Atlantic. The good doctor begins: I [...]
12 October 2022
3.1 MINS
If our Premiers want thanks, they're about two years too late. At the start of this month, the Prime Minister called an end to emergency Covid-19 restrictions, declaring that isolation periods are no longer necessary for those who catch the virus. So it’s basically a [...]
11 October 2022
1.6 MINS
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton has told the Herald Sun he was “bruised” by the work his force had to do during the pandemic. Not as bruised, however, as the peaceful protestors shot in the back with rubber bullets at the Shrine of Remembrance. [...]
10 October 2022
2 MINS
Melbourne City Council has employed Chief Heat Officers to fight the, um, heat. The council, which declared a climate emergency in 2019, will empower two staffers to battle the hotness. Hot warriors are necessary, Lord Mayor Sally Capp explained, because by 2050 Melbourne will experience [...]
7 October 2022
3.1 MINS
Churches in Victoria must mobilise their congregations to vote Daniel Andrews out of office. Sure the Liberals are hopeless, but at least they don’t hate Christians. The same cannot be said for the Andrews government. Not only does the Victorian Labor government continually enact legislation [...]
7 October 2022
2.6 MINS
I have taught my black children that the only thing worse than racism is imagined racism. Actual racism can be confronted and dealt with. But imagined racism -- where racist undertones are presumed in every interaction -- is a bondage from which you can never [...]
6 October 2022
2.3 MINS
The real reason politicians have a stupid grin when posing with electric vehicles. Politicians used to kiss babies. These days they stand, grinning from ear to ear, beside short-range carriers of large heavy batteries, also known as electric vehicles. It’s a wonder our MPs don’t [...]
5 October 2022
2.7 MINS
When delusions are accepted as realities, the whole world goes mad. Cognitive dissonance is a mental disorder that results from holding two conflicting beliefs at the same time. Cognitive refers to the act of thinking. Dissonance refers to a lack of harmony. The inconsistency of [...]





