C. C. Turner (she/they)
@ccturner.bsky.social
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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As a former RASigs officer (Reserve), I’m so happy to see this! I look forward to getting one.
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A lot of people who live in the country believe in climate action. Unlike the National Party, their livelihood is tied to the land, which everyone can see is changing rapidly
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A lot of people who live in the country believe in climate action. Unlike the National Party, their livelihood is tied to the land, which everyone can see is changing rapidly
I’m glad to see someone’s taking this up, as I had the same thought/question the other day when seeing such headlines.
“A worker at one of the ATO’s outsourced call centres is pursuing a “same job, same pay” order that threatens to unravel the agency’s extensive use of 3rd party contractors…workers have complained about pay, conditions, training & extreme staff turnover”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Worker at Australian Taxation Office call centre takes court action demanding ‘same job, same pay’
Fair Work Commission application comes amid scrutiny of ATO’s use of for-profit call centres
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I’m glad to see someone’s taking this up, as I had the same thought/question the other day when seeing such headlines.
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This sets out the clear, bullet-point agreed plan that, if funded by Australian governments, would stop most ongoing family violence & make women & children way safer. Governments choose not to, while spending $60m on PNG men's rugby, $96m on crap BOMsite, millions on dicky consultants, etc.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis, writes Katherine Berney.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
Australia knows how to end violence against women. What we lack is the will to pay for it.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis.
womensagenda.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This sets out the clear, bullet-point agreed plan that, if funded by Australian governments, would stop most ongoing family violence & make women & children way safer. Governments choose not to, while spending $60m on PNG men's rugby, $96m on crap BOMsite, millions on dicky consultants, etc.
‘Chucklefucks’, great word.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
‘Chucklefucks’, great word.
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I’m comfortable with burning the Westminster system to the ground and just trusting David Pocock to make all our decisions for us
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I’m comfortable with burning the Westminster system to the ground and just trusting David Pocock to make all our decisions for us
How can you have a reference library, that’s also public, without reference librarians? Who’s going to help researchers, students and the public access this collection? it’s madness.
The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
Proposed cuts at State Library of Victoria go against its mission – and will hurt the disadvantaged
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
How can you have a reference library, that’s also public, without reference librarians? Who’s going to help researchers, students and the public access this collection? it’s madness.
Why would you cut essential frontline staff in a public library? One that’s located across the road (literally) from a university as well? That’s just had a new underground station built to help folks get directly to it? and why is it never management ranks that get culled? @beneltham.bsky.social
The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
Proposed cuts at State Library of Victoria go against its mission – and will hurt the disadvantaged
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Why would you cut essential frontline staff in a public library? One that’s located across the road (literally) from a university as well? That’s just had a new underground station built to help folks get directly to it? and why is it never management ranks that get culled? @beneltham.bsky.social
Isn’t this an example of where ‘same job for same pay’ should be a applied? Or because it’s not ‘labour hire’ is it exempt from that Labor-introduced law?
Outsourcing - a cost-cutting practice where employees are farmed like battery hens and customers are treated with contempt.
‘The whole thing stinks’: outsourced ATO call centre workers shocked by conditions as callers complain about inexperienced staff www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘The whole thing stinks’: outsourced ATO call centre workers shocked by conditions as callers complain about inexperienced staff www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘The whole thing stinks’: outsourced ATO call centre workers shocked by conditions as callers complain about inexperienced staff
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand also say the ATO’s ‘phone system just doesn’t work’
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Isn’t this an example of where ‘same job for same pay’ should be a applied? Or because it’s not ‘labour hire’ is it exempt from that Labor-introduced law?
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Better approve some more gas fields and coal mines.
Scientists say they are "speechless" after witnessing significant coral death at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef.
Survey finds 60 per cent of Ningaloo coral has turned to stone
Scientists say they are "speechless" after witnessing significant coral death at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Better approve some more gas fields and coal mines.
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Just as well we approved that gas plant up at Barrow hey
‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm
- by @readfearn.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- by @readfearn.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm
One expert says he is ‘starting to visualise the point where all we have left of corals and reefs is memories’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Just as well we approved that gas plant up at Barrow hey
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New @creativepec.bsky.social report! “Who Stays and Who Leaves? Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers” pec.ac.uk/state_of_the...
Who Stays and Who Leaves? Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
Read the latest State of the Nations research report from University of Sheffield on mapping arts, culture and heritage careers.
pec.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
New @creativepec.bsky.social report! “Who Stays and Who Leaves? Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers” pec.ac.uk/state_of_the...
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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Give everyone food, a roof over their heads, access to healthcare and education, and a means to dignity and respect in their societies and watch neo-Nazism vanish in a generation. Pearl-clutching while these things go unaddressed is futile.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘We can’t police our way out of fascism’: experts urge holistic approach to counter Australia’s neo-Nazis
Reactive lawmaking and off-the-cuff ideas won’t deal with the problem, counter-terrorism expert and researcher at ANU says
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Give everyone food, a roof over their heads, access to healthcare and education, and a means to dignity and respect in their societies and watch neo-Nazism vanish in a generation. Pearl-clutching while these things go unaddressed is futile.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
FIXED IT—“… the extreme risk he posed to Clarke and THEIR children ...” as I can’t recall it’s ever been said that the kids weren’t also his. So he killed his own children, his partner/their mother, & himself. Why do we keep reporting the children as just hers? — plus hear hear 2 the whistleblower!
"—police officers involved in investigating the killings had doubts about Clarke’s allegations that she had been a victim of domestic violence and coercive control—even after she was murdered."
This is so typical of our "Police." #auspol #MVAW #MVAC
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This is so typical of our "Police." #auspol #MVAW #MVAC
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Hannah Clarke murders: Queensland police made potentially critical mistakes, new evidence reveals
Exclusive: Detectives investigated ‘veracity and motive’ of Brisbane woman’s allegations of domestic violence and coercive control – even after the horrifying attack that killed her and her children
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
FIXED IT—“… the extreme risk he posed to Clarke and THEIR children ...” as I can’t recall it’s ever been said that the kids weren’t also his. So he killed his own children, his partner/their mother, & himself. Why do we keep reporting the children as just hers? — plus hear hear 2 the whistleblower!
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We need to remember what’s important in life: Friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn’t matter, but work is third.
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We need to remember what’s important in life: Friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn’t matter, but work is third.
I didn’t realise the RRA report (with half of its references AI-fabricated) claimed there was a wind farm at Oakey, Qld (how could there be a wind farm near Defence aviation bases located there due to its reliably calm weather?). And to raise drawing attention to such lies was a ‘distraction’.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Remember when the Libs used to attack Labor for being run and financed by faceless, back room, unelected, riff raff?
Gina obviously has her voice to parliament.
#Environment
#AusPol
Remember when the Libs used to attack Labor for being run and financed by faceless, back room, unelected, riff raff?
Gina obviously has her voice to parliament.
#Environment
#AusPol
Climate-sceptic IPA refuses to reveal funders in fiery Senate inquiry
Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart has previously donated to Institute of Public Affairs but thinktank won’t say if she remains a donor
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I didn’t realise the RRA report (with half of its references AI-fabricated) claimed there was a wind farm at Oakey, Qld (how could there be a wind farm near Defence aviation bases located there due to its reliably calm weather?). And to raise drawing attention to such lies was a ‘distraction’.
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"Thank you Konrad. Australia isn’t run by governments anymore. It’s managed by billionaires, corporations and lobbyists who’ve turned democracy into a storefront."
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November 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"Thank you Konrad. Australia isn’t run by governments anymore. It’s managed by billionaires, corporations and lobbyists who’ve turned democracy into a storefront."
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Did fear of jail time stop Adrian Bayley murdering Jill Meagher? No it didn’t. Multiple state governments trying to turn Australia into a Dickensian prison hulk are doing so because they will not face the reality of how people got there. Safe and secure housing, access to medical care NOW
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Did fear of jail time stop Adrian Bayley murdering Jill Meagher? No it didn’t. Multiple state governments trying to turn Australia into a Dickensian prison hulk are doing so because they will not face the reality of how people got there. Safe and secure housing, access to medical care NOW
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New James Bond Movie Idea.
A psychological horror movie where Bond is relentlessly tormented by the ghosts of all murdered women he’s ever slept with.
A psychological horror movie where Bond is relentlessly tormented by the ghosts of all murdered women he’s ever slept with.
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
New James Bond Movie Idea.
A psychological horror movie where Bond is relentlessly tormented by the ghosts of all murdered women he’s ever slept with.
A psychological horror movie where Bond is relentlessly tormented by the ghosts of all murdered women he’s ever slept with.
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Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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When you get to the stage where 1 in 5 households are experiencing food insecurity, you've passed the cost-of-living 'crisis' stage and normalised cost-of-living precariousness.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
One in five Australian households 'severely food insecure', report finds
A new report from Foodbank finds 20 per cent of Australian households have skipped meals or days of eating in the year to July.
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
When you get to the stage where 1 in 5 households are experiencing food insecurity, you've passed the cost-of-living 'crisis' stage and normalised cost-of-living precariousness.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
No f*ck’n shit! Is it just that we’re deciding to name it publicly now? Women weren’t included in clinical trials until the 1990s — that’s only 30 years ago. All resus dolls are men meaning the ‘average’ person doesn’t know how to deal with breasts in CPR. We could go on and on…
A Victorian inquiry has found a dismissive and disrespectful health care system built around "Caucasian male biology" is contributing to poorer outcomes for women and girls.
'Difficult reading': Victoria releases report into women's pain
A Victorian inquiry has found a dismissive and disrespectful health care system built around "Caucasian male biology" is contributing to poorer outcomes for women and girls.
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 AM
No f*ck’n shit! Is it just that we’re deciding to name it publicly now? Women weren’t included in clinical trials until the 1990s — that’s only 30 years ago. All resus dolls are men meaning the ‘average’ person doesn’t know how to deal with breasts in CPR. We could go on and on…
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People will condemn SNAP, saying it’s not everyone else’s responsibility to make sure people get fed, and in the same breath they’ll support farm subsidies because it’s everyone else’s responsibility to make sure people get fed.
November 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
People will condemn SNAP, saying it’s not everyone else’s responsibility to make sure people get fed, and in the same breath they’ll support farm subsidies because it’s everyone else’s responsibility to make sure people get fed.
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For those who will bear witness. For everyone who pretends there was benevolence from 'employers' & governments, and no slavery in Australia; who believes Tony Abbott's version of history. Debra Dank writes with beauty and anger of the truth we cannot dodge.
theconversation.com/friday-essay...
theconversation.com/friday-essay...
Friday essay: Debra Dank’s grandmother was a ‘drover’s boy’. Her stolen wages can’t be recovered
Stella Prize shortlisted author Debra Dank reflects on how her family’s lives were scarred by stolen wages and colonial violence – and on the complexities of apologies.
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
For those who will bear witness. For everyone who pretends there was benevolence from 'employers' & governments, and no slavery in Australia; who believes Tony Abbott's version of history. Debra Dank writes with beauty and anger of the truth we cannot dodge.
theconversation.com/friday-essay...
theconversation.com/friday-essay...
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That 1 in 3 Australians are suffering from food insecurity - in one of the most affluent countries on the planet - is a sign of political failure at all levels of Govt - and that media is not recognising this is also a failure of their responsibility in our democracy #auspol
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
That 1 in 3 Australians are suffering from food insecurity - in one of the most affluent countries on the planet - is a sign of political failure at all levels of Govt - and that media is not recognising this is also a failure of their responsibility in our democracy #auspol