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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Cars used to be called freedom machines because once you had your own car, you were free. Free to travel, work, play, go on road trips, and show off to that girl you never had the guts to ask out on a date. Or was that just me? Moving on. Fast forward to 2025, and […]
The environmental lobby are finally starting to wake up to what many of us have been saying for decades. The so-called transition to so-called renewable energy is not just an act of economic suicide. It’s also an act of environmental vandalism on an industrial scale. Rainforest Reserves Australia have released an astonishingly useful map. Full […]
In the media business, there’s a simple truth. Good news does not sell. And sadly, it seems to be true on YouTube as well, which is why there is so much negative clickbait everywhere you look. But I’m going to try and prove that Maxim wrong today by sharing a good news video and hoping […]
The marketing hype around renewables has ratcheted up recently with triumphant headlines making claims such as South Australia producing its energy needs via renewables for 10 days straight and a steady string of headlines about new batteries, the home battery roll out exceeding expectations and more. It’s all designed to make you believe that the […]
