26 Facts About Miranda Devine

Miranda Devine is an Australian-American columnist and writer, now based in New York City.

Miranda Devine hosted The Miranda Devine Show on Sydney radio station 2GB until it ended in 2015.

Miranda Devine has written columns for Fairfax Media newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, and for News Limited newspapers Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Melbourne's Sunday Herald Sun, and Perth's Sunday Times.

Miranda Devine was born in New York, but grew up in Sydney and Tokyo, attending school at Loreto Kirribilli and the International School of the Sacred Heart respectively.

Miranda Devine has a Master of Science in journalism from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Macquarie University.

Miranda Devine studied first-year architecture at the University of Sydney, where she was a resident at Sancta Sophia College and worked briefly at the CSIRO's Division of Textile Physics.

Miranda Devine worked for the Boston Herald as a reporter and feature writer.

In 1989, Miranda Devine joined The Daily Telegraph as assistant editor, police reporter, and columnist after returning to Australia to live in Sydney.

Miranda Devine had previously worked at the British tabloid the Sun and the British newspaper Sunday Times in London.

Miranda Devine formerly lived in Sydney with her husband and two sons.

Miranda Devine is the author of the book Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.

Miranda Devine takes a conservative stance on a range of social and political issues.

Miranda Devine stated that the victims alleged that prosecutors had intentionally "censored" their official statements to remove any mention of racially sensitive material.

Miranda Devine has been accused by The Guardian and The Sydney Morning Herald of promoting the white genocide conspiracy theory and has been described as pivotal in popularising the concept within Australian politics.

Miranda 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 the Black Saturday bushfires event.

Miranda Devine is a climate change denier, advocating for the continuation of coal-fired electricity production and she has repeatedly stated that climate change is a political conspiracy.

In 2011, Miranda Devine used the news of Australian federal government minister Penny Wong's decision to parent a child with her female partner as the basis of a column in which she argued that the 2011 riots in England were the result of a "fatherless society".

Miranda Devine sparked further controversy in 2015 after claiming that "women abusing welfare" were the main cause of domestic 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".

In February 2020, Miranda Devine was reported to be "over the moon" after being retweeted by Trump.

Miranda Devine has since repeated Donald Trump's unsuccessful attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election with unsubstantiated claims that Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was driven by large-scale electoral fraud.

In January 2021, Miranda Devine blamed past Black Lives Matter demonstrations for the actions of rioters during the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.

In February 2020, Miranda Devine alleged in a series of tweets that a video showing Quaden Bayles, an Indigenous boy with achondroplasia dwarfism, crying after being bullied at school, was a scam and that Bayles was actually an adult actor.

In September 2020, ahead of a settlement of the suit, Miranda Devine, who was on secondment at the New York Post, tweeted an apology for her allegations that the video had been faked.

Miranda Devine has been cited as the source for a rental application of Hunter Biden's purporting to have previously paid $49,910 of rent a month at a previous property.

Miranda Devine was one of the inaugural recipients of this award, established by RealClearPolitics to honor individuals who demonstrate exceptional courage in upholding the principles of the First Amendment and resisting censorship.

Miranda Devine was recognized for her insightful columns and her book, Laptop from Hell, which delves into the controversies surrounding Hunter Biden.