Receiving a dick pic from a guy is like your cat bringing you a dead mouse. I can see you're proud, but I'm not touching it.
C. C. Turner (she/they)
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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
Malaysian Australian author Omar Musa has taken out the Miles Franklin Literary Award with his second novel, Fierceland, set between Malaysian Borneo and Sydney.
Novel taking on controversial palm oil industry wins $60,000 literary prize
Malaysian Australian author Omar Musa has taken out the Miles Franklin Literary Award with his second novel, Fierceland, set between Malaysian Borneo and Sydney.
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“Australians are not being investigated for hating Jews. They are being investigated for objecting to a genocide.” Andrew Brown on the Royal Commission into #Antisemitism #auspol michaelwest.com.au/royal-commis...
Royal Commission into Antisemitism a "$131 Million Whinge" - Michael West
Royal Commission into Antisemitism will not defeat antisemitism. It is a government buying absolution with $131m of public money
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Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Australia’s sky-high cigarette excise and restricted legal access to vaping have helped fuel a vast illegal nicotine market. Harm reduction, not prohibition-style denial, should guide tobacco control, Alex Wodak writes. #auspol #PublicHealth #Vaping
Time to reform Australia’s failed policy on smoking and vaping
Australia’s sky-high cigarette excise and severely restricted legal access to vaping have helped fuel a vast illegal nicotine market, undermining public health, law enforcement and government revenue.
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Anthony Albanese – the great Australian sellout. From salmon to supermarkets, gas to gambling – we detected a pattern. Albanese consistently backs powerful lobbyists. www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...
Albanese keeps backing lobbyists over public opinion, our analysis shows
From salmon to supermarkets, gas to Gaza, the PM has consistently backed those with power and wealth
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This is from the country which just tariffed Australia for failing to prevent importation of slave Labor produced products, yet still has slave Labor itself.
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d agoThe diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
Yet the Govt can’t decide whetehr to adopt the more comprehensive anti-racism framework developed by the Aust. Human Rights Commission, but sure, let one person’s crusade takeover govt policy in one specific area. #auspol
stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · 6d agoJillian Segal says her plan is to expand IHRA training “at scale” — to all govt depts & all businesses in the country — & be driven by a new taxpayer funded body - which she reveals is already in the works.😳 What the hell is going on?
He’s belled the cat. He’s admitting they want IHRA to be a tool to accuse people of antisemitism and get them fired. This is weaponising antisemitism to take away peoples livelihoods. It really is beyond time these vicious attacks were stopped.
Australian — Six the Musical Returns to Australian Stages #Australian #News
Six the Musical Returns to Australian Stages
Six the Musical has resumed its Australian tour, with hopes of reclaiming its former success. The musical, which previously faced challenges, is now back on stage, aiming to regain its popularity. The…
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AI has just had its Sarah Connor moment. Last week's rogue AI story has been dismissed by some as marketing. But even a cynical read of the news & other evidence suggests it should be a "warning shot" for the serious disruptive threat of AI that will soon be widely available www.abc.net.au/news/...
I still sing ‘spring, spring, spring, spring, everybody loves spring’ to that tune each change of season. Vale Bill Oddie.
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · last wk.British actor, comedian and broadcaster Bill Oddie, best known to Australian audiences as a member of the 1970s comedy trio The Goodies, has died aged 85.
🎵 I'd love to have a dinner with Albo Cause Albo's my mate But I need a million dollars to pay him 'Cause that is the rate 🎶 #auspol
“The OECD’s annual employment outlook confirms that not only did profits drive Australia’s inflation in 2022, but that growing profits are also behind the most recent increases in prices” writes @grogsgamut.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/270...
If ALP were truly scared, they’d use their super majority to push through all sorts of true reforms (#raisetherate etc) before the next election & they might find polls turning in their favour & they’d actually keep a majority (even a smaller one). But they won’t. #auspol
Special DemosAU poll has Labor well short of a parliamentary majority
If this poll’s results were reflected at an election, Labor would lose its majority, with One Nation and the Coalition combined leading Labor in seats by 73–68.
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If you have a hidden safety phone in Australia, remember to switch it off or put it in airplane mode before 2pm AEST today if you don’t want it to be discovered during the AusAlert test. Volume and mute settings will be overridden by the test.
⚠️ "Forensic testing conducted for Four Corners has revealed dozens of tomato paste and passata products which claim to be from Australia or Italy are actually from China." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
They promise you 'grown in Australia'. Here's where tests say they're really from
One of Australia's biggest tomato brands and two major supermarkets are selling products that exclusive forensic testing shows have misleading labelling.
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"Jewish groups and Israel’s embassy have lobbied the party to water down the draft text..." So a foreign power and their Australian lobbyists interfere in party politics. And MSM reports this as if perfectly normal. They'd go beserk if it was China, Russia, or even the US. #hypocrisy #auspol 1/2
Robynne@haddagutful.bsky.social · 2w agoEd Husic-led push for Labor recognise Gaza genocide claims set to fail, preventing public stoush www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Have been watching the antisemitism RC closely & struggling to find actual examples of antisemitism. Zero institutionalised racism, segregation, or systemic exclusion like First Nations people still face. Examples lack evidence & rely on hearsay. Clearly just a massive beat-up.
Australia's last surviving Kokoda campaign veteran, Reginald James Chard OAM, has died aged 102 RSL Australia announced he died "peacefully" on Friday, saying he was one of the nation's last links to the soldiers who fought along the Kokoda Track during World War II www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Reginald Chard, Australia's last surviving Kokoda veteran, dies at 102
Australia's last surviving Kokoda campaign veteran, Reginald James Chard OAM, has died aged 102.
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In case you didn’t have enough reasons to love Spanish football, here’s some more wholesome content of the male players paying their respects to the women’s team, which also won the world cup www.instagram.com/reel/DbEsgxe...
Ah, NSS? But maybe this is the evidence that’s needed? #auspol
Australian Archaeological Association@austarchaeology.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's long been debated what started the 1789 smallpox outbreak that devastated the Indigenous population in Australia. Now, a new modeling study has the likely answer: It was brought in 1788 by the "First Fleet" of British ships to settle Australia www.livescience.com/archaeology/... /em
The Australian Bar Association, the Northern Territory Bar Association and the Criminal Lawyers Association of the Northern Territory have all previously expressed serious concerns over statements made by Robyn Cahill
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2w agoA government official in Australia says the Northern Territory needs data centres to use lots of water so......the Earth's axis doesn't flip
Gepants are not available in Australia on pbs 🙃 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The truth about migraines: what causes them – and how to find relief
Over the last decade, the understanding of these devastating headaches has grown enormously, as has the understanding of what can be done to treat them
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No one is shocked by this. Bet the govt still doesn’t act by returning to a CES-style system. #auspol
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2w agoAustralia's jobseeker system fails workers and enriches millionaires, report says
WTH? So, there's no, from AusGov, "okay, we'll agree to let premiums rise but you have to spend the increase on healthcare/input costs"? What a rort. #auspol @australiainstitute.org.au (H/T @deniseshrivell.bsky.social 's TrueNorth daily enewsletter).
Michael West@michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 2w agoShow me the money! How top five health funds spend your premiums Claudia Weisenberger reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/show-me-the-money-how-top-five-health-funds-spend-your-premiums/
I know Let's ask a question on public morality from a politician who organised a fake water sale for $80M, walked out on his own political party, had an affair with his staffer who got pregnant while he was still married, and who was recently found maggotted in a Canberra gutter Perfect
“The UN Human Rights Committee has found Australia violated Mr Hicks's human rights when it imprisoned the Australian for 7 months following his release from Guantanamo Bay.“ Remember David Hicks? #AusPol
UN committee finds Australia breached David Hicks' rights
SBS World News Radio: A United Nations committee has found the Australian government breached the human rights of former Guantanamo Bay inmate, David Hicks.
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