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:
2 September 2022
2.3 MINS
The mask mandate aboard domestic flights is in place for just one more week. Why not scrap it immediately? Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that passengers on domestic flights will not be required to wear masks as of next Friday. Yay! Wait. What? Why [...]
1 September 2022
2.4 MINS
Tennis player Novak Djokovic suffers yet more unfairness for being unvaccinated. US President Joe Biden has been jabbed four times and yet still contracted Covid, twice! Meanwhile, Novak Djokovic -- who does not have Covid -- was banned from entering the US to play at [...]
29 August 2022
3.7 MINS
The Age is in a tizzy over a Catholic school actually being Catholic. Must be a slow news day. There’s an old definition of news that goes like this: If a dog bites a man, that’s not news. But if a man bites a dog, [...]
25 August 2022
2.8 MINS
Labor's plan for an Australia powered solely by renewable energy is simply untenable. We are in for a future of electricity and fuel shortages. Anthony Albanese was asked about the future of green energy just before he became Prime Minister. He told journalists: “What does [...]
24 August 2022
5.1 MINS
The government, public health officials, and mainstream media, tainted by transgender-affirming ideology, are all complicit in preventing parents of gender dysphoric children from accessing the latest news and best practice healthcare for their suffering offspring. Failing to affirm a person’s chosen gender is now illegal [...]
23 August 2022
2.3 MINS
Sexual intercourse with animals is being seriously explored at a government-funded event in Sydney. Have we fallen so far from our identity as humans with a unique dignity and purpose? The New South Wales Government-funded Festival of Dangerous Ideas should be renamed the Festival of [...]
18 August 2022
2.1 MINS
Apparently, strong women like Queen Elizabeth I who claimed masculine traits, surely could not have been women. At most, they must have been non-binary. Thus goes the trans narrative of historical revisionism, in desperate efforts to find their genderqueer reflection in ages past. I’m old [...]
16 August 2022
4.2 MINS
Understanding why transgenderism dominates the culture wars. Jesus answered, “The reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to Me.” “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. Then Pilate took Jesus and had [...]
15 August 2022
2.5 MINS
Do you think you can find a Coles staff member to scan your groceries after 8pm? If only they did acknowledgement of customer as well as they do Acknowledgement of Country! It was revealed last week that Coles supermarkets now print an Acknowledgment of Country [...]
12 August 2022
2.5 MINS
When Covid-positive Tahila McGrath was cleared to play at the Commonwealth Games, readers of The Age clutched their pearls despite her firm adherence to the safety measures in place to minimise risk of spreading the virus. Then the cricket team won... Cricket is played by [...]
11 August 2022
3 MINS
Is it unfair for "trans-women" to be excluded from lesbian-only events? Or do lesbians' rights come first? Equality Tasmania insists it’s only fair that men who identify as women have access to lesbians. The lobby group put out a statement yesterday in response to a [...]
9 August 2022
1.4 MINS
Why is it all right to provide Australian coal for Ukrainian consumption, but terrible if we burn it for domestic energy production? Environmental activism has produced some puzzling double standards. Australia has gifted Ukraine 70,000 tonnes of coal to provide electricity to the war-torn nation. [...]
8 August 2022
2.5 MINS
If an adult like Lovato can change her mind about what "gender" she is, why are we allowing children to have disfiguring surgery and dangerous hormone treatments on the basis of their changeable feelings? Singer Demi Lovato -- who last year changed her pronouns to [...]
6 August 2022
4.3 MINS
Disadvantage needs to be addressed. This is not the way to do it. The Australian government wants to create a new body within the constitution called the "Voice". When I asked if I will be part of it, they replied that it will depend on [...]
5 August 2022
2.4 MINS
Just three days after Daniel Andrews expressed doubts about whether it would be safe to hold an Australia Day Parade, the Victoria Premier announced a gay street party. With Covid still circulating in the community, the government is taking a cautious approach to January 26 [...]
3 August 2022
3.4 MINS
Our current parliament reveals more of its leftist secularist ideals, trampling on Australian history and applying dastardly double standards. If there is a word that substitutes for thought among our political class, it is ‘diversity’. Diversity is a kind of magical word that is summoned [...]
3 August 2022
2.4 MINS
Australian Senate President Sue Lines is right to demand that the longstanding tradition of opening each day of federal parliament with the Lord’s Prayer be abolished. The words of Jesus are dangerous and politicians should be protected from hearing them lest they startle the country [...]
2 August 2022
4.3 MINS
Why you should pay attention to the insane. At a time when insanity is increasingly normalised, it’s smart to pay attention to the insane. I used to dismiss acts of insanity as “freakish” and “fringe”. Not anymore. If you give it a week, the oddity [...]
1 August 2022
4.1 MINS
There appears to be only one acceptable narrative these days, despite the constant trumpeting of "diversity" and "inclusion". A professor opines on the Manly rugby players' apparent lack of education in progressive values. If only the naive Manly Sea Eagles players who refused to wear [...]
29 July 2022
3.1 MINS
Manly's flirtation with wokeball ends in a mess. The officials gave lip service to diversity, but really sought uniformity with modern secular norms. “It'll be an inclusion game,” they said. “It’ll celebrate diversity,” they promised. And so it was. Except that the Manly Sea Eagles [...]





