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 December 2025
3.5 MINS
A push to remove the Islamic religion as a factor in Australia’s terrorism laws sparks heated debate, with critics warning the change risks weakening national security and ignoring real-world motivations.
28 November 2025
1.6 MINS
A male competitor briefly claimed the World’s Strongest Woman title, exposing once again the absurdity of ignoring biological reality in women’s sport.
27 November 2025
2.2 MINS
Australia’s new “interstellar Indigenous policy” grant sparks satire, with critics lampooning a space program focused on cultural protocols over spacecraft, engineering, or anything that might actually reach space.
21 November 2025
3 MINS
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is reportedly set to announce a ban on transgender women – by which I mean biological men – competing against females: a long-overdue correction that acknowledges biological reality and restores fairness to women’s sport after years of ideological pressure.
19 November 2025
6.6 MINS
The Coalition stakes its claim on affordable energy, challenging Labor’s Net Zero obsession based on questionable climate science. With real-world economics on their side, they could win both the argument—and the next election.
14 November 2025
4 MINS
The Albanese Government’s rushed social media ban for under-16s takes effect in a month — but with no clear plan, no firm details, and plenty of political “cracks”.
11 November 2025
2.7 MINS
The Albanese Government has unveiled its inaugural climate risk assessment and, according to the document, Brisbane will soon be the lost city of Atlantis and Townsville a mass grave.
10 November 2025
1.9 MINS
When Muslims kill Muslims in Sudan, it’s genocide. But when Muslims kill Christians in Nigeria — 7,000 this year at the rate of 35 murders a day — it’s apparently “complex”.
31 October 2025
2.3 MINS
We’ve now reached that special stage of national enlightenment where even medical emergencies are now to be judged — not by urgency, and not by injury — but by identity. Congratulations, Victoria. You’ve finally cured racism: by institutionalising it.
30 October 2025
2.4 MINS
Gay athletes have competed — and won — in every major international sporting event for decades. So why do we need a separate Olympics based on what happens after hours?
10 October 2025
4.5 MINS
Yesterday proved there is no genocide in Gaza. There never was. All Hamas ever had to do in order to end the suffering of the Palestinian people was to release the hostages.
3 October 2025
4.9 MINS
The first thing that needs to be said about Trump’s bold plan to end the Gaza conflict is that it exposes the pro-Palestinian movement for what I’ve always suspected it to be. It’s an anti-Israel movement rather than a peace movement.
2 October 2025
1.9 MINS
Concerned mother Beth Bourne stripped down to a bikini while addressing progressives on the school board about their decision to open female bathrooms to boys identifying as girls.
26 September 2025
1.7 MINS
Israel has stunned the international community by formally recognising Australia as a Palestinian state. The move comes after Canberra’s decision to recognise “Palestine” — a nation that exists in roughly the same way Bigfoot does: blurry, elusive, and most often spotted by people desperate for attention.
24 September 2025
3.4 MINS
Now, the widow of a slain man is applauded for forgiving, the leader of the free world is acknowledging the need for God, and the world’s richest atheist-turned-God-seeker is tweeting the Lord’s Prayer. Charlie Kirk's killer didn’t deserve forgiveness. But then again, neither do we.
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.





