Topher Field

2x Australian Libertarian of the Year, Award Winning Director of Battleground Melbourne & Author of Good People Break Bad Laws.

[Topher Field @TopherField]

Hi, Welcome, Why am I here?

I'm touring the USA right now and this video is a 'hello!' which gives a bit of context for new comers to my channel.

Welcome to my channel, and to my journey. Things will be a bit different to normal during June and July as I am on a speaking tour of the US, but I think you'll find that I get up to some pretty interesting things, speak to some pretty interesting people, and along the way I'll still be releasing semi-regular Topher Project videos that I'm known for.

Thanks for watching, and please support my work by buying me a coffee, or my books, tee shirts, hoodies, caps, and stickers, at https://t.co/rysxJqJKjm

[Feds For Freedom @feds4freedomusa]

Our freedoms are eroded one small, seemingly trivial slice at a time. We accept them because standing up is hard. But by the time we notice the cumulative loss, complaining about the 5th slice is met with 'Why didn't you object to the first four? @TopherField

[Topher Field @TopherField]

Ahh the glamorous life of a youtuber / conference speaker...

I'm bedding down on the floor of the Chicago-Midway airport after storms cancelled my flight to Cincinnati and the Young Americans for Liberty conference.

Gate B8 if you feel like paying me a visit...

I finally fly out at lunchtime tomorrow... if the storms don't return.

Wish me luck!

[Topher Field @TopherField]

Interesting.

I honestly expected the Labor Party to let her take the fall, like they did with Joan Kirner.

I wonder who is going to step up now to drink from the poisoned chalice?

Via @RebelNews_AU

[Topher Field @TopherField]

Good move!

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I’ll soon be sponsoring a bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock (and other style) cameras to surveil law abiding citizens.

[Topher Field @TopherField]

It's always a joy to hear @ericmetaxas in person, and today with the @AFAlliance is no exception!

Brilliant author and historian, do yourself a favour and start reading his books.

[Topher Field @TopherField]

@LibertarianLars You mean this?

[Topher Field @TopherField]

Falls' to just $1.73million? For a median house?

Our continent is the most sparsely populated barring Antarctica.

The only people paying less for housing than us, should be penguins.

Yet relative to median income, housing in Australia at large, and Sydney or Melbourne specifically, is stupendously expensive.

I 'get' why Singapore or Manhattan or New York are expensive... the whole world wants a house there, and land is very limited.

But here on the continent of Australia...?

This is caused by government restricting land release, and jacking up the cost of construction. This isnt a failure of capitalism, nor a failure of free markets, it's a failure of the centrally planned regulation state which smothered the free market of housing to death decades ago.

Beware those who 'celebrate' houses becoming 'more affordable'. None of the underlying issues have been addressed and after a brief period of adjustment, housing values will rocket up again,and rental costs are ALREADY rocketing up and will continue to do so.

You cannot fix a government created problem with more government.

[Topher Field @TopherField]

Reliable; Affordable; Renewable.

Pick 2 and 2 only.

If you insist on 'Renewable' then you can have EITHER 'Affordable' OR 'Reliable', but NOT both.

[Topher Field @TopherField]

It was a great conversation, had on the sidelines of a great conference!

[Feds For Freedom @feds4freedomusa]

136. Too Much 1984, Not Enough 1776 | Topher Field @TopherField

How far should obedience go when the government crosses the line?

🔥Recorded at FreedomFest 2026, Stephanie Weidle sits down with Australian filmmaker, author, and political commentator Topher Field for a gripping conversation about Melbourne’s COVID-era lockdowns—and the moment he decided that his conscience required civil disobedience.

Topher recounts curfews, military checkpoints, protest bans, arrests, police confrontations, and the personal cost of becoming one of Australia’s most visible lockdown opponents. He explains why he believes limited government can survive only when ordinary people are willing to place limits on their own obedience.

👉The conversation explores the psychology behind mass compliance and why standing up can cost you friendships and professional security. Topher details how nurses and teachers changed the course of Australia’s resistance movement and what Americans can learn from Melbourne’s experience.

Topher Field is the director of Battleground Melbourne and the author of Good People Break Bad Laws and Good Christians Break Bad Laws.

Check out his website: https://t.co/NQ7xs6zut8

[Topher Field @TopherField]

You do not have to wait till a trap is sprung to see that a trap has been set.

You do not have to have been hurt by a trap to know that the person who set it intended to harm you.

You do not owe someone setting a trap 'the benefit of the doubt' as to their true intentions.

The modern surveillance state is a trap.

It is not yet complete. It is under construction as we speak.

It has not (yet) been sprung on you.

It has not (yet) harmed you in obvious ways.

The architects demand you give them the benefit of the doubt, "It's only for criminals, we wouldn't misuse such power!" as they build the architecture of despotism.

They demand our trust even though they've misused every other power they've been given.

This trap must be dismantled against the will of its architects and without regard for their protestations.

The only question that remains is whether we will unite to dismantle this trap before the trap is sprung, when the price of pushback is lowest, or whether we will condemn ourselves to trying to escape only once the trap is triggered and escape is at its least likely, and most costly?

[Topher Field @TopherField]

There is something deeply dystopia about AI Voice generated announcements in public places.

Union Station in DC is beautiful, peaceful, and speaks of high civilisation... right up until the moment the slightly grainy AI voice echoes under the lofty ceiling.

Suddenly I am transported into Equilibrium or a host of other post-apocalyptic dystopias.

Is it just me? Or should these places stick with real human voices on their PA system?

[Topher Field @TopherField]

Exactly this:

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America they told me the football game starts at 1 PM.

I arrived at 1 PM.
I was five hours late.
The parking lot was already a city.

A man had built a living room beside his truck. Not metaphorically. He had a couch. A television. A chandelier powered by a generator the size of a small horse.

He was grilling enough meat to feed a village, and when I walked past he said, "You hungry?"

I said I had not been invited.

He looked at me the way you look at someone who has apologized for breathing.

"Brother," he said. "You're here. That's the invitation."

He handed me a plate. It was not a small plate. The brisket hung over the edges like a man sleeping in a bed he has outgrown.

I ate it standing beside a stranger's couch in a parking lot in October, and it was among the finest meals of my life.

A woman across the row had a tent, a smoker, a speaker system, and a flag so large it could have sheltered a family of five beneath it.

She had been here since 6 AM.

The game had not started.

The game, I began to realize, was not the point.

I asked the man what time he would go inside the stadium.

He said, "Depends."

I asked on what.

He said, "On whether the ribs are done."

I want to be clear. He had a ticket. He had driven four hours. He had assembled a small civilization from the back of a pickup truck.

And he was considering not going to the game.

Because the ribs were not ready.

In Japan we tailgate nothing. We do not build living rooms in parking lots. We do not grill for strangers.

We sit quietly on trains and think about whether we remembered to bow at the right angle.

I have since attended eleven tailgates.

I have never once cared who won the game.

Nobody has.

The game is inside the stadium.

America is in the parking lot.

[Topher Field @TopherField]

The #deflock memes are on point.

[Topher Field @TopherField]

I'm not trying to start nuthin, but...

America, are you ok?

[Topher Field @TopherField]

The UK reshuffle the Titanic's deck chairs... again.

Starmer out, Burnham in, nothing changes.

Reckon it'll work this time?

[Topher Field @TopherField]

@John_On_Climate @FootnotesGuy @CSIRO The word 'may' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

Is that the best you've got?

[Topher Field @TopherField]

@FootnotesGuy Can't wait to interview you about this!

[Topher Field @TopherField]

@RossCameron4 This has never ever gone wrong before in the history of ever.

We have NEVER found ourselves fighting AGAINST the people we trained, or the weapons we supplied, EVER.

And any history book that teaches otherwise should be burned immediately.

[Topher Field @TopherField]

"Childless lords sitting in high towers musing on heraldry."

Tolkien was right, as always.

[Matthew Camenzuli @Matt_Camenzuli]

Does diversity mean stupid, arrogant young and female?

No wonder the nation is burning.