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 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.
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.





