In 1975, the taxpayer-funded ABC broadcast a recording of three adult men and a child, talking in explicit detail about and advocating for pedophilia. That was 50 years ago, but until very recently, the ABC have insisted that that tape had been destroyed, that, that recording no longer existed. That was a lie. The tape […]
It’s not often that I have great news when it comes to car tech and especially to car safety tech, but today is one of those rare occasions. ANCAP, the Australasian new car assessment program, have finally realized that they’ve allowed, or indeed some would argue that they caused manufacturers to go too far with […]
Well, here at the Topher project, we’ve had news previously about the Queensland Castle Law petition that has been going very well. Well, I’m going to upgrade that from going very well to breaking records. It is, in fact, set a new record for the largest number of signatures for a Queensland parliamentary petition ever […]
Well, fresh off the back of the news out of the Northern Territory that Chief Minister Leah Fukiaro will not be allowing trans into trans women into women’s prisons, biological men into women’s prisons. She’s having not a bar of it. We’ve seen an interesting exchange on the floor of Parliament here in Victoria where […]
The UN are rushing to impose a new global carbon tax on shipping, potentially adding hundreds of thousands of dollars in carbon taxes to every journey of every container or cargo ship anywhere in the world, which means billions in annual revenue for them and higher cost of living and lower living standards for us. […]
Did you hear the story about the brothel worker who used pepper spray to protect herself from an unruly client? Well, it’s a great story. Gets a little spicy, but it has a happy ending. No, you didn’t get it. Neither did he. All jokes aside, I absolutely love this story for so many reasons, […]
Well, you really do learn something new every single day. I live and breathe. Politics, political commentary is my thing. I’m breathing policy and taxes and all the details. And yet, even so, someone like me can still be caught out and go, “Hang on, I didn’t realize that that was true.” True. And one […]
Regular viewers of the Topher project will already know that I’m predicting that the under 16’s social media ban is going to turn into an epic legal showdown between the Australian e-Safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant and the big American social media tech companies including Meta which is Facebook and Instagram, Alphabet, meaning Google and […]
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers backing down on his super tax is a bigger deal than you might think because he’s made two crucial changes. The first is to only tax realized gains rather than unrealized gains, which means he’s no longer setting a terrible precedent for an entirely new type of tax in Australia, which […]
Ah, doom and gloom. You’re going to get a fine for sipping from a coffee while you drive your car. Or are you? This story is a case study in how cynical people are exploiting AI generated fake news stories for profit and how AI then feeds off itself to make it all seem true. […]
