Miranda Devine | |
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| Born | (1961-07-01)July 1, 1961 (age 64) |
| Education | Macquarie University (BS) Northwestern University (Master of Journalism) University of Sydney |
| Occupations | Columnist, Journalist, Author |
| Employer | The New York Post |
| Known for | Coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story |
| Father | Frank Devine |
Miranda Devine is an Australian-American columnist and writer, now based inNew York City. She hostedThe Miranda Devine Show on Sydney radio station2GB until it ended in 2015.[1] She has writtencolumns forFairfax Media newspapersThe Sydney Morning Herald andThe Sun-Herald, and forNews Limited newspapersDaily Telegraph,Sunday Telegraph, Melbourne'sSunday Herald Sun, and Perth'sSunday Times. As of 2022, she writes for theNew York Post. Some of her political opinion pieces and statements on race, gender, and the environment have been criticized by ideological opponents.[2][3][4]
Devine is the eldest daughter ofFrank Devine, a New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor and journalist, who died in 2009. She was born inNew York, but grew up inSydney andTokyo, attending school atLoreto Kirribilli and theInternational School of the Sacred Heart respectively. She has aMaster of Science in journalism fromNorthwestern University (USA) and aBachelor of Science inmathematics fromMacquarie University. Devine studied first-year architecture at theUniversity of Sydney, where she was a resident atSancta Sophia College and worked briefly at theCSIRO's Division of Textile Physics.[5]
Devine worked for theBoston Herald as a reporter and feature writer. In 1989, Devine joinedThe Daily Telegraph as assistant editor, police reporter, and columnist after returning to Australia to live in Sydney. She had also previously worked at the British tabloidthe Sun and the British newspaperSunday Times inLondon. Most recently, Devine's columns, focused on United States politics, are published by theNew York Post[6] and she makes appearances promoting her articles on local media outlets. TheNew York Post launched Devine'sPod Force One[7]podcast[8] with aDonald Trump interview on 11 June 2025.[9] Devine formerly lived in Sydney with her husband and two sons.[5] Devine is the author of the bookLaptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.[10]
Devine takes a conservative stance on a range of social and political issues.[11] In April 2016, she coined the term "delcon" (delusional conservative) to describe conservatives who remained loyal toTony Abbott after theLiberal Party ousted him in favour ofMalcolm Turnbull.[12][13]
In 2002, Devine opined inThe Sydney Morning Herald that the racial element of theSydney gang rapes had been "airbrushed" out of the media coverage of the events. She stated that the victims alleged that prosecutors had intentionally "censored" their official statements to remove any mention of racially sensitive material.[14] Devine has also been accused byThe Guardian andThe Sydney Morning Herald of promoting thewhite genocide conspiracy theory and has been described as pivotal in popularising the concept within Australian politics.[15] Referring towhite South African refugees as "oppressed white, Christian, industrious, rugby and cricket-playingCommonwealth cousins", she has claimed they would "integrate seamlessly" withEuropean Australians.[16]
Devine suggested in 2009 that conservationists were to blame for the poor management of forested areas and national parks, and consequently for the deaths during theBlack Saturday bushfires event.[17] This rhetoric was revived during the2019–20 Australian bushfire season,[18] but promptly rejected by the scientific and firefighting community.[19][20] In 2017, she claimed that shared bicycle schemes were a terror threat.[21] Devine is also aclimate change denier, advocating for the continuation ofcoal-fired electricity production and she has repeatedly stated thatclimate change is a political conspiracy.[22]
In her comments inThe Daily Telegraph on thebreach of duty of care lawsuit brought by 14-year-old gay student Christopher Tsakalos against theNew South Wales Education Department in 1997, Devinepoured cold water on the possibility of everprotecting LGBT+ students from discrimination and assault, asserting that to do so, "you would have to make mincing homosexuality the norm in schools." Devine also accused theGay and Lesbian Teachers and Students Association of coaching Tsakalos'camp performance for financial reward, and to make him into "an international poster boy for the homosexual movement",[23] aspeculation strenuously refuted by his mother.[24]
In 2011, Devine used the news of Australian federal government ministerPenny Wong's decision to parent a child with her female partner as the basis of a column in which she argued that the2011 riots in England were the result of a "fatherless society".[25][26] Writing forABC News,Catherine Deveny criticised Devine's claim thatsame-sex marriage was a "political tool to undermine the last bastion of bourgeois morality - the traditional nuclear family".[27] Devine sparked further controversy in 2015 after claiming that "women abusing welfare" were the main cause ofdomestic violence in Australia and contending "if you want to break the cycle of violence, end the welfare incentive for unsuitable women to keep having children to a string of feckless men".[28] In 2016, Devine again caused controversy by comparing the purported "vilification" of opponents ofsame-sex marriage in Australia to the victims ofbeheadings by ISIS, saying that critics of same-sex marriage were being "brutally made examples of" by "intolerant authoritarians".[29]
In 2019, Devine defendedCardinal George Pell, at the time facing charges of which he was ultimately acquitted, related to the sexual assault of two 13-year-old boys, claiming that the victim's "accusations are implausible" and that "Victoria police chiefGraham Ashton desperate for a distraction from the crime epidemic he's incapable of stopping".[30]
Devine supported US PresidentDonald Trump. In February 2020, Devine was reported to be "over the moon" after being retweeted[31] by Trump.[32] In October 2020,The Guardian described her as "one of Trump's favourite writers"[33] after the President again retweeted one of her articles.[34] Devine drew criticism for a "fantastically fawning love letter"[35] to Trump in which she described him as an "invincible hero" after his recovery fromCOVID-19[36] and called COVID-19 "the Chinese virus".[37] Devine has since repeated Donald Trump's unsuccessfulattempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election with unsubstantiated claims thatJoe Biden's victory in the2020 United States presidential election was driven by large-scaleelectoral fraud.[38] In January 2021, Devine blamed pastBlack Lives Matter demonstrations for the actions of rioters during the2021 storming of the United States Capitol.[39]
In February 2020, Devine alleged in a series oftweets that a video showingQuaden Bayles, anIndigenous boy withachondroplasia dwarfism, crying after being bullied at school, was a scam and that Bayles was actually an adult actor.[40] That led to Quaden's mother, Yarraka, suing Devine for defamation on behalf of her son, and also suing on her own behalf over Devine's suggestion she had coached Quaden.[41]
In September 2020, ahead of a settlement of the suit, Devine, who was onsecondment at theNew York Post, tweeted an apology for her allegations that the video had been faked.[42] Shortly after this,The Guardian reported that the Bayles family settled with Devine for almost $200,000 in damages plus legal costs.[43]
Miranda Devine has been cited as the source for a rental application ofHunter Biden's purporting to have previously paid $49,910 of rent a month at a previous property.[clarification needed] This has been construed byTucker Carlson,Judge Jeanine and otherFox News hosts as proof ofmoney laundering within the Biden family.[44][better source needed] Thefact checking websitePolitiFact says out that this claim is wrong, and that the actual property referenced is Hunter Biden's office space in theHouse of Sweden building on K Street, Washington, D.C.[45]
In June 2017, soon after theGrenfell Tower fire inLondon, Devine claimed that "aluminium composite cladding was applied to the building last May, not just for its good looks but as a sustainable energy solution to achieve green ticks in the carbon-obsessed British regulatory system." and that "Green ideology has given us...now flammable cladding."[46] Australian television programMedia Watch said in September 2024 that theGrenfell Tower Inquiry found "no evidence of 'green ideas' contributing to Grenfell Tower inferno that killed 72 people, despite News Corp columnistsRowan Dean and Miranda Devine stirring up a culture war seven years ago."[47]
Devine was one of the inaugural recipients of this award, established byRealClearPolitics to honor individuals who demonstrate exceptional courage in upholding the principles of the First Amendment and resisting censorship.[48]
Presented by theMedia Research Center, this award acknowledges conservative journalists who provide impactful and trustworthy commentary. Devine was recognized for her insightful columns and her book,Laptop from Hell, which delves into the controversies surrounding Hunter Biden and the unfounded pre-election censorship of the story by media and tech companies.[49]
A judge has said nine-year-old Indigenous boy Quaden Bayles has an arguable case that he was defamed by columnist Miranda Devine. Justice Anna Katzmann has approved moves to serve court documents on the controversial New York-based columnist.
Controversial News Corp columnist Miranda Devine has triggered an angry reaction with a column likening the LGBTIQ campaign supporting marriage equality to the tactics of ISIS.
Controversial News Corp columnist Miranda Devine has triggered an angry reaction with a column likening the LGBTIQ campaign supporting marriage equality to the tactics of ISIS.
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