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C. C. Turner (she/they)

@ccturner.bsky.social
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On Wadawurrung Country. Emerging writer. Arts, Cultural & Heritage leader. 3rd gen war veteran. Servant to Penny & Molly. #gothecats #animelover Opinions are my own. Repost ≠ agreement. #freepalestine. #raisetherate

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C. C. Turner (she/they) @ccturner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Alt text — In case no one noticed…none of the Cornell rapists are trans, gay, undocumented immigrants, drag queens, or radical feminists. Just white males.
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Dave Krantz @weskrantz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
sure baby Finn video is cute but how about some baby Mia
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Wattle It Be @wattleitbe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If a corporation pays NO TAX in Australia, should they be allowed to donate politically? Let's reframe this - political parties that take donations from these corporations are effectively taking money that should be used on health, education, infrastructure etc for us. Parties are stealing from us
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 01/10/2026
Australian publisher Starfish Bay, which took money for publication, is accused of leaving authors high and dry. Writer Beware is collecting info on this disaster; if you've been affected, pls contact me. beware@sfwa.org www.nine.com.au/australia-ne...
nine.com.au
Australian publisher accused of taking thousands and ghosting children’s authors
A grieving mother paid $12,000 to publish a book written in memory of her late son. She was left without a finished book and completely ignored.
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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The biggest coal mine expansion ever proposed in NSW has been approved by the Minns government. It threatens to wipe out Australia's emissions reductions. This is a major test for Anthony Albanese and Murray Watt; they cannot provide federal approval to a project of this scale.
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Albanese's proposal to water down Australian copyright to appease AI companies is a "terrible betrayal", writes Richard Flanagan in a blistering piece. "A government that doesn’t understand its nation’s culture is a government incapable of leading the nation." www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
deepcutnews.com
The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
Australians should be furious that Anthony Albanese has opened the floodgates to American AI companies
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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look at far down Australia is on this list of social security benefits 😳 #AusPol
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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If there is one lesson to be learned from a similar battle in the UK, high-profile members of the creative industries make a difference. They get your argument on the front of newspapers, in the news bulletins and on social media. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
British celebrities beat AI companies lobbying to get free use of their work. They have a warning for Australia
‘People care about the songs, books and pictures that influence the critical moments in their lives,’ says the architect of the fightback in the UK
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Power is its own constituency. It exists to protect itself.' Authoritarianism sounds scary, but it arrives bit by bit. We're already doing the work for some grim future. Will be talking about this and more at Sydney Opera House's Curious program this Sunday. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/28/r...
crikey.com.au
Don't think Australia is immune to authoritarianism
Nobody wakes up to sudden authoritarianism. We relinquish ourselves to it by allowing our favoured government to get away with bending norms and rules. Over time, these bends become clean breaks.
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Larre Bildeston @larreau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If anyone's wondering why the Australian seasons of Love on the Spectrum are more queer, this comedy skit partly explains it. *Northern Pictures making insufficient effort to avoid the ABA / Autism Speaks crowd once hitting the US explains the rest.
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LARP Casting 🎤 Scout Boxall
YouTube video by Comedy Republic Standup
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Leroy @leroylynch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No evidence of a 'wage-price spiral' in Australia, says RBA board member Iain Ross, a former President of the Fair Work Commission www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... #ausecon
abc.net.au
No evidence of a 'wage-price spiral' in Australia
There is no evidence of runaway wage growth emerging in Australia, says RBA board member Iain Ross
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C. C. Turner (she/they) @ccturner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reminds me of the eagle given to US ambassador by Russian schoolchildren as told by ABC RN podcast ‘No One Saw It Coming’. This time, a calendar from Israeli to Aus MINDEF. #friendlyspying
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C. C. Turner (she/they) @ccturner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Women, power & the politics we choose” by Meg Schwarz for @johnmenadue.com “Female leaders can soften the image of a movement [populist radical-right parties] that might otherwise be seen as overwhelmingly male, while retaining many of the same political positions.” #auspol
pearlsandirritations.com
Women, power and the politics we choose
The rise of women within populist-right politics complicates assumptions about representation, showing that putting women in positions of power does not determine the politics or values they will purs...
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why won't mainstream media ask tough questions of the Israel lobby? Jeffrey Loewenstein, former chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission, asks. www.deepcutnews.com/p/why-wont-m...
deepcutnews.com
Why won’t mainstream media ask tough questions of the Israel lobby?
Mainstream media should be alarmed by what Jillian Segal is proposing
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Jeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'd love Australia to have a seat on the UNSC, if we stood for international law and didn't give aggressors bases in our country and military parts to those committing genocide. And if we didn't sabotage every climate agreement. And if we didn't persecute refugees and export that cruelty.
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C. C. Turner (she/they) @ccturner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s almost like we’ll need migrants 🤔 🧐 #auspol
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C. C. Turner (she/they) @ccturner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
George Megalogenis’ 3 Shocks — in convo w/ @peterfitz1.bsky.social for @sydmorningherald.bsky.social 1. since 2018, migrants/children of same [incl. this duck] make-up more than 50% of Aus. pop’n 2. Since 2015, tertiary-educated, professional women make-up more than 50% of Aus. workers … /2 #auspol
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Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 21/09/2026
If the Australian government wants women to plug the labour gaps in caregiving like it's 1950, they need to fix wages and cost of living so that we can survive on our partner's income alone like in 1950. Expecting us to work, have more babies, and also provide aged care is unfathomable.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
they drew the name from a hat and now they don’t know whether that’s the winner or the person eliminated, which imho should disqualify them all
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
add the $19 billion we give to wealthy families for prestigious schools to the $12 billion we give to landlords and the $16 billion we donate towards fossil fuel emissions while the pampered brat class bitches and moans about funding welfare. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/09...
pearlsandirritations.com
Why are we still funding Australia’s wealthiest schools?
Australia’s wealthiest private schools continue receiving public funding despite mounting budget pressures, raising questions about whether government spending on education reflects need and the broad...
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Effigy @chitteringthing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hot take: the Australian arts have contributed more to global culture and society than the entire Renaissance and Enlightenment periods, and the Islamic Golden Age, and it's solely because of one little show created by two incredibly talented women A show, called 'Kath and Kim'.
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Kath & Kim: Look At Moi!
ALT: Kath & Kim: Look At Moi!
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C. C. Turner (she/they) @ccturner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If this ADF Veteran was teaching in schools I’d honour Black diggers by ensuring their continuing service & mistreatment post-WWI was taught. That female veterans are as valid as males. How this continent has always been multicultural, even pre-‘settlement’. So let me at them! #auspol
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C. C. Turner (she/they) @ccturner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And shows Leeser is no ally for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders afterall. #auspol
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Outstanding reporting from #Canada on how deeply embedded Atlas Network partners & people are in trying to get #Alberta to be a separated US pawn. (Note Gina Rinehart is part of the problem there too.) The Atlas Network’s ppl want profit for donors, not your good. See #NZpol links. #Auspol #Cdnpoli
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM FOUNDATION
Before immigrating to Canada, Alberta Institute founder McCaffrey was president of the youth wing of New Zealand's right-wing ACT Party.
McCaffrey said he was introduced to Atlas partner Frontier Centre for Public Policy by David Seymour, who directed the think tank's Saskatchewan office before returning to New Zealand to resume his political career with ACT.
Since being elected to the New Zealand parliament in 2014, Seymour has denied his links to Atlas Network, calling questions about his connections to the group a "conspiracy theory."
McCaffrey replaced Seymour at the Frontier Centre's Saskatchewan office in early 2012, went
through the Atlas Network's leadership academy program in 2013, and worked for the Manning Centre from 2014 until establishing the Alberta Institute.
McCaffrey has also been active in the UCP since its founding, including as a member of the party's 2018 policy committee.INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM FOUNDATION
Separatism has gone from an idea on the margins of the conservative movement to one at the centre of Alberta's government.
Over the last decade, a cadre of libertarian think tanks has been instrumental in bringing Alberta separatism into the mainstream, promoting the idea through research, conferences, social media and the press. They've helped craft government policy to prepare Alberta for independence, and to make the threat of secession a powerful "or else" in the province's stand-off with Ottawa.
Connecting this web of institutes and academics are their ties to the U.S.-based Atlas Network, and the revolving door relationship between members of the network and the administration of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
Atlas Network is a U.S. non-profit that acts as the hub connecting a global network of about 500
libertarian think tanks in more than 100 countries.
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In Australia, we publicly fund privilege, not opportunity.
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•Marns🌿🍉🐸 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Prioritising corporate profits over Australian’s welfare should sound alarm bells for voters of all persuasions.
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Dr nick nobody @nicknobody.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Like all law enforcement in the Australian colony this will be applied with racial bias. The largest group of visa overstayers are white British citizens. I predict they will be the group LEAST targeted by this. #auspol
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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
one nation is out here saying they plan to do shit that would crash the economy and the media is like 'well its good to see someone taking initiative'
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C. C. Turner (she/they) @ccturner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nooooo!!!!! Why???? #auspol
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is terrifying — for First Nations kids in particular. Happened to drive past the former Kinchela Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home near Kempsey recently; pulled up to have a look. The shadows around that building were such that I couldn't get out of the car. There are still children buried there.
abc.net.au
Controversial youth justice camps to be rolled out in Queensland this year
Offenders will be based at the regional facilities for up to six months and will be required to wear an electronic monitoring ankle tag.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Maybe instead of all these thinkpieces about how to cut corners we tax the fuck out of the 1%.
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 17/09/2026
In 2022 Labor promised to scrap compulsory income control. They lied. Now they've extended it INDEFINITELY on the quiet. The Greens tried to undo this in the Senate last week but Labor and the LNP blocked us. I'm chairing a hearing tomorrow where I'll be demanding some answers.
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“It’s not the fault of migrants that neoliberalism has created a system where wages are suppressed but the price of goods keeps rising, even as company profits do” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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C. C. Turner (she/they) @ccturner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Aside from the death toll horror associated with the obscenely low jobseeker rate, check out this graph that shows it’s flatlined since about 1993, is only a little only half what’s needed to reach the poverty line & hasn’t even stayed parallel to the poverty line. #auspol
A graph titled ‘Jobseeker is nearly $300 a week below poverty’ shows that jobseeker as flatlined since about 1993 and has not kept parallel with the poverty line, aside from the Covid spike, meaning the current level of jobseeker ($408.75) is about 58% of what’s needed to be on the poverty line ($706.93).
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C. C. Turner (she/they) @ccturner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And Gina Rinehart gets her way. . @qldaah.bsky.social
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Once again it's people in the arts' literal gig economy, who can ill-afford to turn down work, standing by their principles of free speech to support the people of Gaza while condemning anti-Semitism.
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macklemore can sue Robert Kraft for Tortious Interference for economic harm and I hope he does. Discovery would be fun: "Which other stadium owners did you talk to?" and "We need all related emails, text messages and contracts between you and them and you and Sheeran and Sheeran's team."
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every single Pauline Hanson story reporting on her latest racist comments should also include that a court has upheld that she racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
God, reading this article it's clear that what she said was demonstrably, clearly true and has been willfully misrepresented in bad faith.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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C. C. Turner (she/they) @ccturner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This explains why, since my LG TV OS update last weekend, upon starting the TV, if I don’t open the app I want to watch quickly enough it’ll auto-play News24 despite not choosing it or ever watching it or wanting to hear a thing from it. #auspol
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You will be amazed to learn that some of the people who we invite to our country to pay huge fees to cross-subsidise domestic students and prop up our entire university system also have partners and children www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Family visas for foreign students targeted in migration crackdown
International students would effectively be banned from bringing family members to Australia under a long-awaited overhaul of the immigration system.
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kmacnahmee.bsky.social @kmacnahmee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Canada is to be the first associate member of the EU. Australia should be the 2nd. Get your leaders over there to find out already. Middle powers unite.
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Chris Karakaltsas @hristaki.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Australia should get first rights to join the EU. We're already in Eurovision damn it!
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"AI companies have said Australia's copyright regime is a sticking point over plans to invest here." What a bunch of grifting, thieving, water-stealing, energy-sucking, fossil-fuel perpetuating parasites As @grogsgamut.bsky.social asks what do Australians actually get for this 'AI investment"❓
abc.net.au
Leaked AI copyright proposal triggers political firestorm
The leaked plans have sparked backlash from creatives and critics across the political spectrum.
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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The AI companies want to gobble up Australia’s creative properties for free - so APRA AMCOS (who handle Australian music licensing) are demanding an urgent study by the govt to establish the value of those properties. Every sovereign economy should do the same. www.apraamcos.com.au/about-us/new...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/09/2026
OpenAI won't even consider renewable investments in Australia until the country agrees to kill its copyright laws so they can freely train on creative work. When Albanese caves and agrees to this, OpenAI will just run on fossil fuels anyway: guaranteed. archive.ph/mzSVj
OpenAI’s ultimatum: dilute creatives’ rights or we won’t discuss renewables
The ChatGPT creator threatens to walk away from local training facilities unless Labor backs down on creative industry protections.
Noah Yim
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Greg Brown
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Matthew Cranston
4 min read
September 14, 2026 - 9:29PM
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There's increasing evidence that the Exclusive Brethren not only had a significant physical presence in seats like Kooyong in the 2025 federal election. They also employed right-wing activists, including neo-Nazis and former Proud Boys, to disrupt election activities and campaigning.
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‘The jig is up’: Global Exclusive Brethren leaders face grilling over election conduct
The church’s head Bruce Hales and his son Gareth are both set to be called before a parliamentary committee after this masthead revealed its links to harassment and stunts on the campaign trail.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
OK then. Fuck off.
Screenshot from The Australian

“OpenAI’s ultimatum to PM: dilute creatives’ rights or we won’t discuss renewables”
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Muz @cleatusjethro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BRIBE HIM! Why hasn't any Australian thought to offer Trump to take 1/2 the AUKUS cash to cancel the contract! It's a certainty, it'd be gone with one truth social post He's so stupid he could probably negotiate the price down for us #auspol #fuckaukus
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