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:
13 March 2025
2.5 MINS
What should we make of a massive Hindu statue unveiled in Western Sydney this week? Some will rage about immigration ruining this country or about the failure of migrants to integrate properly. But the real issue is not culture. It’s spirituality.
12 March 2025
0.9 MINS
Democrat politicians sat and scowled as President Trump told children that they are perfect just the way God made them.
4 March 2025
4.2 MINS
Three Chinese warships lurking menacingly off our east coast faced what Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy assures us was — and I quote — “the highest level of surveillance that you’ve ever seen”.
3 March 2025
1.6 MINS
How much help does Hamas need? Well, according to the BBC, just a little bit more. The British Broadcasting Company is facing calls for a police investigation after its recent hour-long documentary on life in Gaza.
27 February 2025
0.9 MINS
According to The National Journal, who kept count, Trump answered 1009 questions compared to Joe Biden’s 141 during his first four weeks in the Oval Office.
25 February 2025
1.6 MINS
A West Australian landowner has been found guilty of upsetting an Aboriginal rainbow serpent. The West Australian Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage insisted that the law requires landowners wanting to cross waterways on their own land to obtain the Rainbow Serpent’s blessing.
21 February 2025
2.2 MINS
An aged-care home in Melbourne has provided residents with a companion robot in a bid to ease loneliness. Are we really replacing the wonder of grandchildren with the novelty of robots? That hardly sounds like progress to me.
19 February 2025
1.5 MINS
The Democrats have learned nothing since Trump’s election victory last November — and Tom Hanks’ latest skit proves it. Hanks is just another liberal millionaire elitist who obviously has no clue what everyday people deal with daily, or think.
13 February 2025
3.4 MINS
The Health Minister’s response to a video in which two New South Wales nurses threaten to kill Jews in their care tells you everything about the problem we have here in Australia.
10 February 2025
2.6 MINS
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan recently rushed to address her state’s most pressing issue — ensuring the alphabet mafia feel sufficiently validated. The Labor Premier issued a stunning and brave statement reassuring Victoria’s LGBTQ+ community that she believed in them.
6 February 2025
2.7 MINS
A two-state solution will never work since the Palestinians, who remain committed to the destruction of Israel, have never wanted to share the land with Jews. Trump has promised to rebuild the area now known as Gaza after two million Palestinians have been removed to neighbouring countries.
30 January 2025
1.3 MINS
A lot of people are arguing that Trump’s victory exposes the stupidity of the Left. And it most certainly does. But I would argue that there is even more pressure on conservatives around the world who, for the past ten years or more, have played at being conservative lite.
24 January 2025
2.2 MINS
The first person to take issue with Donald Trump’s insistence that there are only two genders was an Episcopalian priest. Of course. Bishop Marianne Budde used her Washington pulpit, tilted to the left, to berate the President for — of all things — agreeing with Moses.
16 January 2025
0.9 MINS
Pro-Palestinian protestors in Melbourne spent the weekend chanting “All Zionists are Terrorists” under the watchful eye of Victoria Police.
15 January 2025
1.5 MINS
It was revealed that the incoming Trump Administration had invited Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong as official guests to the Presidential inauguration next week. That’s quite the hand of forgiveness.
13 January 2025
3.3 MINS
As wildfires ravage Los Angeles, forcing Hollywood stars to flee for their lives, there are two emerging theories as to how things got so bad. Inevitably, poor old climate change is blamed for all the world's ills.
9 January 2025
5.3 MINS
The crimes were only allowed to continue — and they continued for more than 20 years in the UK — because the identities of the perpetrators were unsayable. Everyone knew that the rapists were gangs of Muslim men from Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds. But no-one dared say it.
9 January 2025
2 MINS
This is the thing you need to understand about all Western lefties. Those on the left have a giant soft spot for Islamists, because those on the left so readily identify with the Mohammedans’ love of ideological purity.
8 January 2025
1.9 MINS
Dylan Mulvaney’s hairdresser, Jonathan Van Ness, has “divided the internet” over the dress he wore to the recent Golden Globes. The ‘you-do-you’, easygoing, non-confrontational approach we have adopted in the West over the past 50 years to bearded ladies has done nothing but produce more bearded ladies.
2 January 2025
2.4 MINS
No arrests, questions over police resolve, and Julian Hill's controversial appointment spark concern over antisemitism





