Feminists blame the patriarchy for everything. Communists blame the capital class for everything.

And it seems that a large number of Aussies have decided to blame immigration for everything. And just like the feminists are blaming the patriarchy for their own problems, and the communists are blaming the capitalists for their own laziness, so Australians now are blaming our population growth for our own incompetence. And that matters because if we waste our time and energy fighting the wrong problem, then our problems just get worse.

I’m going to piss a lot of people off today because I’m going to hold up a mirror and lots of Aussies aren’t going to like what they see in their own reflection. Now, to be clear, there are a lot of problems in Australia right now. Cost of living, cost of energy, housing shortage, loss of manufacturing and industry, collapsing productivity, inflation, failing health care, failing education standards, a violent crime wave, and probably a bunch more that I’ve missed. Add them in the comments.

So, I’m not pretending that we should do nothing. Some people will watch this video and the data that I’m going to present you with in just a moment, and they’ll say, “Yeah, but we can’t do nothing.” Okay, I agree. Nothing isn’t an option. But doing the wrong thing because we’ve diagnosed the wrong problem is even worse. There are many amazing Australians who have been working very hard for decades, only 16 years in my case, but for many decades in the case of so many other amazing people, who have been working hard to fix Australia’s problems and to prevent our problems from being made worse. But we’ve been fighting a losing battle because not enough Australians have stood up and joined us.

We would have loved for all of these people that are getting all excited about population growth and immigration to instead come and invest their energy into fixing the real problems, the ones that we’ve been fighting.

But instead, we’ve got these idiots who just woke up in the last 5 years running around saying, “Oh, look at you fat lot of good you’ve all done all that time. And what have you achieved so far?” Well, clearly we haven’t achieved enough. I agree. But it’s a bit rich that so many people who have sat on the sidelines and refused to get involved in politics, refused to support those who did get involved and refusing to get active for any one of the many different campaigns which they could have been active in. And now suddenly, well, they’ve got their knickers in and not over immigration. And they want to point the finger at people like me and so many others and tell us that none of what you’re doing works and that somehow magically they’re going to get results and fix everything by stopping immigration.

So, let’s start by getting our facts straight and understanding what the problem actually is and only then can we actually discuss what the solutions might be. Solutions that actually have a chance of working. My name is Topher Field. This is the Topher project and it seems that my lot in life is to tell people the truth and be hated for it. I’ve been doing it since 2009 when people hated me for talking about water and water mismanagement and the need to ditch the Murray Darling Basin plan. I’ve since been hated for defending free speech consistently ever since Julia Gillard tried to censor us with her news media council. I’ve been hated for telling the truth about climate change. I was hated for telling the truth about Covid. Now that immigration has suddenly become the latest drama, the latest distraction for the masses, I’m being hated for telling the truth about that, too.

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Okay, so the narrative is that our population is growing too fast and that’s the cause of our economic infrastructure, housing, crime and cultural woes. There’s too many people in Australia and we are breaking Australia under the strain. That’s the narrative. But what if I told you that our population growth in the last 20 years has been average, exactly the average of the 80 years since the end of World War II.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases detailed population data and we have full end-of-year data all the way up to the end of 2024.

Now I looked back every 10 years from 2024 back to 2015 then from 2014 back to 2005 and so on all the way back to 1945, 80 years in total. And if you then sort those decades in order of the percentage population increase in Australia, the last 10 years come out in fifth out of the eight decades. Fifth lowest, closer to the bottom than the top in the bottom half of all of the decades since the end of the Second World War. And the previous 10 years before that, the decade from 2005 to 2014, it comes in at number four out of the last eight decades.

And yeah, there was a period of lower immigration before that and there was a period of higher immigration before that. So my point is simply to state the obvious fact that whilst I agree that lots has gone wrong in Australia in the last 20 years, I agree we have a lot of work to do if we’re going to save this country. But the threat to us is not population growth and it’s not immigration.

The threat to us comes from within. The question is, how come Australia cannot cope with a perfectly routine level of population growth? How come we’re breaking today when we coped with higher population growth more easily in the past? What’s gone wrong with us? Globally speaking, we’ve seen this phenomenon before. We know what we need to do, but if we don’t face and address the real problem fast, then far greater problems lie ahead for us in Australia.

Let’s take a quick look around the world. Immigration is not what caused the collapse of the Soviet Union. Immigration is not what impoverished Venezuela. Immigration is not what brought starvation to North Korea. Each of their own governments did all of that to their own people, usually in the name of helping them. And when it started going wrong, the government distracted the people by making them waste their time and energy fighting each other. Immigration is not what’s caused your quality of life to fall here in Australia. Immigration is the scapegoat. Government is the problem. Immigration did not drive up our power bills. That was government with net zero. Immigration did not destroy our manufacturing. That was government with red tape and green tape and power prices. Immigration did not cause inflation. That was government with massive money printing to help us. Immigration did not destroy our productivity. That was government again with red tape and green tape and the invention of vast amounts of useless, unproductive government jobs. Immigration did not lock you down for a nasty flu. That was government who were keeping you safe. Immigration has not passed laws to silence you and censor you or to make you register to use social media. That’s the government. And immigration didn’t take your job either. That’s on you.

Now, it is true that immigration did make housing more expensive. Increasing demand will always do that. But that happened on top of the government already doubling construction costs with taxes and red tape, making land release slow and expensive and imposing minimum standards that make it impossible to build cheap entry-level housing anymore. So yeah, you’re right. Immigration did add to one of the problems that government had already created. Yeah, sure. So hypothetically, if you win this fight against immigration, whatever that means, guess what? Houses will get a little bit cheaper temporarily and everything else in Australia will just keep getting worse because it’s not the immigrants who are doing this to us. It’s us, our government.

How come Australia could grow so much during those post-war years, the 40s, ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, with a combination of high birth rates and very high immigration rates and somehow we managed to build all the dams, the power stations, the roads, the railways, the irrigation, the infrastructure, yes, the houses, the schools, the hospitals. We built them all.

Australia dealt with three straight decades of population growth way higher than what we’ve had for the last two decades.

They got their asses into gear and they built this country and we are the country that we are today because of the work they did in those decades during much higher population growth. They faced a problem, a challenge bigger than the one we have today and they aced it. While we are flunking, the problem today is not that we have too many people or that our population is growing too fast. The problem today is that something or someone is holding us back. And that something is red tape, green tape, taxes and bureaucracy. And that someone is the politicians that we keep electing and the army of bureaucrats that they pay with our money to do their bidding, which is to hold us back. Our problem comes from within. Government is the problem. Immigration and population growth is just the scapegoat.

Many Australians are gearing up to fight the wrong enemy. And I know that most of them mean well. You’re not all racist. I’m not saying anything like that. But you’ve been duped by a combination of hysteria in the mainstream media and by opportunists in the alt media. You’ve been duped into believing that we’re being overrun by a wave of people too big for us to possibly cope with. And their answer is to stop immigration. But the numbers show clearly that whole premise is wrong. It just isn’t happening. Our problems are coming from somewhere else.

Which means that if we stop immigration, but we don’t stop our government from destroying us, then all these people, these anti-immigrant marchers, all this nonsense, all they’re going to do is turn Australia into the world’s largest white ghetto with collapse and poverty and hunger in our future if we don’t fix government. Fixing immigration is not a step in the right direction. It is a road to nowhere. And we don’t have that amount of time to waste. Venezuela fell from relative prosperity into genuine hunger in only 10 years after they elected Hugo Chavez, who helped them in similar ways to how our government is helping us now. The same is true in every country that allows productivity to be destroyed by their own government. The immigrants aren’t destroying Australia. It’s way worse than that. We are.

So, what do we do about it? Well, I’m sorry to say that I don’t have a sexy answer for you. There isn’t some one-and-done instant fix big protest that fixes everything. The problem is us. We have to change. So we need to keep doing what we’ve been doing but with more people behind us so that we get more traction faster.

What a lot of people lose sight of is how many fights we’ve actually won in the last few decades and just how bad things would already be were it not for the amazing people that have fought battle after battle against our government on behalf of all Australians. Oftentimes with most Australians not even being aware that the battle was being fought.

The Australia card. That was basically the original analog version of what today has become the digital ID.

That probably happened before you were born. I don’t know. But we won that fight. We stopped it. Julia Gillard’s not-a-carbon-tax. We won that fight. Julia Gillard’s censorship program called the News Media Council. We defeated that, too. The list goes on with so many fights that we have fought and won. More recently, we fought the voice and we won. We stopped the misinformation disinformation bill and there’s heaps more.

So when these newcomers who just got active during covid they want to point at campaigners like me and so many other far more amazing people who have given decades of their lives to this country defending these newcomers from threats that they never even knew existed. And then these newcomers have the gall to look at them and to look at me and say what have you achieved? Well, what I want to say to them is, “We’ve achieved a [….] load more than you, you ungrateful little [….]” But I don’t. What I do is continue to do what I do, bringing awareness and supporting people who are fighting the fights. The people who are fighting fights which will actually do some good if they win, unlike this fight against immigration.

Me personally, I’m in the fight against the E Karen and her dangerous under-16 social media ban. We defeated the news media council. We defeated the misinformation disinformation bill. We can defeat the Karen too. Not just to get Julie Inman Grant thrown out of that job, but to have the whole entire office abolished and her powers done away with.

Now, that’s what gets me up in the morning, but maybe that’s not something that excites you. If not, then find the cause that you are passionate about. Find the people that are already fighting for it and get behind them. Fight for women’s rights. Fight for small business. Fight for our farmers or get involved in politics directly or fight for others who do get involved in politics. Australia is worth fighting for and there are battles that need to be fought. With apologies to Jay-Z, Australia’s got 99 problems and immigration is maybe one and a half of them at the most. The rest of them, they’re on us.

Now, before I finish, I know that some people will object to this video on the basis that even though overall population growth is pretty normal, the proportion of that growth, which is made up of immigrants, is quite high. And allegedly, that’s a problem because they don’t share our culture. And I get where they’re coming from, but I have a question. Does Scott Morrison share your culture? How about Daniel Andrews? Is he more to your taste, more culturally aligned with you? Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Anthony Albanese? Hmm see these are all good European names. These people come from good European stock. Are these the kinds of people is this the kind of culture that you want more of in Australia?

Or are you perhaps willing to consider that when it comes to culture, you and I have more in common with the common folk from every other corner of the globe than what we have in common with these elites? Are you willing to finally realize that if we’re going to defend Australia and protect our culture, we need to start by protecting and defending it from the elites. You’re angry. I get it and you want to fight for Australia, that’s wonderful. Welcome. It’s nice to have you. It’s about time. But let’s make sure we fight the problem, not the scapegoat.

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