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:
17 September 2025
2.4 MINS
The Government released its doomsday climate change modelling yesterday… and Greens leader Larissa Waters is “angry”. The Australian Conservation Foundation – to be led by former Greens leader Adam Bandt – went further today, warning that children’s mental health was already being affected.
15 September 2025
1.2 MINS
Charlie Kirk was shot dead because he dared to speak truths that our culture now deems unacceptable. Once people lose the capacity to reason together, the only way left to resolve conflict is through force.
9 September 2025
2.5 MINS
Afana is not an outlier. He was not a rogue extremist. He was the fruit of a culture that teaches children that stabbing a Jew is worth more than studying for a degree. In the almost two years since that horrific attack on Israel, many have forgotten the evil deeds of that day.
2 September 2025
4 MINS
Sunday's March for Australia had me completely baffled. For a moment there, I thought Australians had rediscovered civic engagement which, as we all know, would have spelled the end for our fragile democracy.
27 August 2025
2.6 MINS
We woke up yesterday morning to shocking images of a Gazan hospital bombed by the Israel military. We are told the strike killed 20 people, including journalists. What isn’t apparent, unless you read extensively, is that the IDF were targeting a surveillance camera Hamas had positioned on the hospital’s roof.
14 August 2025
1.9 MINS
Hamas thinks so much of Anthony Albanese that they are encouraging other world leaders to be more like him. Remember, this is the same Hamas that is on Australia’s official list of terrorist organisations.
11 August 2025
5.1 MINS
British conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has told the BBC how she lost her faith in God. Who hasn’t looked at injustice in the world and been tempted to give up on faith in God? I contend that injustice is actually a reason to turn toward belief in God — and Jesus in particular.
7 August 2025
2.8 MINS
"Yahya" has surged in popularity to make it into the UK’s 2024 Top 100 Baby Names for boys. Is the fact that the 2023 October 7 attacks against Jews were led by the Hamas militant mastermind named Yahya Sinwar a mere coincidence? Or a reflection of something far more sinister?
4 August 2025
2.5 MINS
I woke up to a picture of a starving Jew being forced to dig his own grave. And yesterday, thousands of pro-Palestinian Sydneysiders marched across the Harbour Bridge in support of the people who have done this to him.
4 August 2025
3.1 MINS
The very nations that scream about Israel violating international law in their treatment of the Palestinians now plan to break international law in order to recognise a Palestinian state. It’s a perfect circle of stupidity. But then again, what else can they do? There’s “momentum”!
1 August 2025
2.6 MINS
Hamas has in its charter the eradication of Israel as the reason for its existence. Their sponsor, Iran, has as its stated goal a Jew free world by 2040. Does it never occur to our leaders that recognising a Palestinian state will only be used by the Palestinian leadership to hasten that goal?
28 July 2025
2.3 MINS
If there’s one thing that’s truly gone beyond the world’s worst fears, it’s not the situation in Gaza – it’s the West’s inability to call evil by its name.
23 July 2025
2.3 MINS
UK Labour’s decision to allow 16-year-olds to vote is political insurance for the Left, under he guise of being a noble 'expansion of democracy'. Now many politicians in Australia want the same vote-harvesting rules here.
22 July 2025
2.6 MINS
Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, should quit in disgust. The government’s insistence that it cannot consider the recommendations of her report into antisemitism – until they receive a report into Islamophobia – is as absurd as it is shameful.
21 July 2025
1.7 MINS
Albanese described his China trip as “a breakthrough” in relations. And he’s not wrong. Six days of kowtowing in exchange for two cuddly panda metaphors for our foreign policy – slow-moving, disinterested, and wholly reliant on the CCP.
18 July 2025
1.2 MINS
Art once sought to capture the divine. Mount Gambier’s $136,000 Blue Blob is not so much art as a cry for help from a culture too proud to admit that it’s completely lost the plot.
17 July 2025
3.2 MINS
When women's rights collide with gender ideology, Liberal MPs dive for cover like a Greenie hearing the word “coal"
16 July 2025
3.5 MINS
Anthony Albanese is in China this week, talking about trade and tourism. It’s the great diplomatic two-step where the Prime Minister smiles sweetly, shakes hands, and pretends not to notice the armed warships idling just off our coast.
14 July 2025
1.5 MINS
In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, the Iranian President argued that his country's infamous chants of "Death to America" really mean death to crimes and killing. Perhaps most concerning of all, Tucker took it all in with a straight face.
11 July 2025
3.9 MINS
Superman’s latest reboot isn’t just a movie — it’s a political lecture wrapped in spandex, raising questions about Hollywood’s priorities and what audiences really want from their heroes.





