C. C. Turner (she/they)

Palestinian DJ’s visa not approved ahead of two major music festivals Sama’ Abdulhadi was due to play at huge events in two states this weekend, expected to attract about 120,000 revellers.

Oh, so how low can they go? Cynical enough to believe that if she were Israeli, the visa would have been approved in a heartbeat ...

‘A Culture of Fear’: Adelaide University Under Fire for Cancelling Event with UN Expert Francesca Albanese By Helen Reynolds   The decision by Adelaide University to withdraw a venue booking for an event featuring a leading United Nations human rights expert has ignited a fierce debate about academic freed...

“The decision by Adelaide University to withdraw a venue booking for an event featuring a leading United Nations human rights expert has ignited a fierce debate about academic freedom and censorship in South Australia.”

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Police told Kelly Wilkinson to ‘cool off’ and give estranged husband ‘a break’ days before he burned her to death, inquest hears Wilkinson was turned away by police while seeking help four days before she was murdered, Queensland coroner’s court told

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Kelly was being difficult.

#DV

And it’s a great read, as usual.

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

F*ck you Malinauskas, you started this bullshit.
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There have been so many lessons to learn from Ukraine over Russian drone and missile tactics but the Hegseth run Pentagon has been too arrogant and ideological to pay attention.

the liberal party document thinks labor invented calling dutton 'temu trump' and 'voldermort' which is kinda awesome cause it means they didnt bother doing any research into something they were complaining about hurting them

The new ALP election slogan:

Morally Indifferent

Would love to know where who did this/where it came from. Fabulous.

Why good people leave politics — and what it costs us For some, leaving politics is not an abdication but an act of integrity. Not everyone is meant to survive in environments that reward moral flexibility over moral clarity, and not everyone should.

"Why would thoughtful, ethical people stay in a system that treats their discomfort as weakness and their conscience as a liability?”, Jo Tarnawsky, republished in @crikey.com.au

@grogsgamut.bsky.social am I reading this graph right that we’ve basically returned to the pre-Covid trend?

Victorian government faces backlash from small businesses over right to work-from-home laws Small employers won’t be exempt from proposed legislation designed to allow off-site working two days a week

The SME that moves overseas or interstate after having a hissy-fit about some minor regulatory or tax change is a persistent mythological beast.

I'll help them pack, and we can replace them with small businesses that care about their staff and true efficiency.
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"The rising global scream of discontent at data centres is merely a subcomponent of the growing fury at techno-fascism & enshittification, & the way governments seem unable to stop themselves from diving headfirst into all of that." @ketanjoshi.co (it was hard to pick just one choice quote) #auspol

The sort of disingenuous 'logic' which insists if you don't support illegal incursions into countries involving destruction & civilian death you therefore support oppressive regimes is exactly the sort of brain dead bullshit causing such contempt for politics & media these days.

So, focussing on one electorate at the expense (literal + metaphorical) of others isn’t a good investment huh? #auspol

reverse bechdel test where its 2 men on a podcast who manage to go the entire time without complaining about a woman

trump: US beef is the BEST in the world

australia: "Mate, if we run out of cows, we'll eat the roos. Keep it."

"In every case, what he delivered was a cage. That’s not a “few bad apples” problem. That’s a world that keeps handing men the keys.” #auspol

“… the global headline is the same in three different stories. A man promised a girl a better life. A man promised a woman safety in marriage. A man promised a teenager meaning, belonging, purpose. …. /2

“Misogyny [isn’t] a glitch but part of the operating software: who speaks, who serves, who is watched, who is warned."
#auspol

"And for men — yes, the broader category, the ones who aren’t doing crimes — here’s the unglamorous job: stop acting like misogyny is a niche hobby practised by a handful of weirdos."
#auspol
(yes, lots of advocates/activists have been making these points for years)

"And the barrel is also — quietly — men’s silence.
"Not because all men are predators.
"But because far too many men are beneficiaries of a world where predator behaviour is normalised, minimised, laughed at, excused, or treated as someone else’s problem until it becomes a headline.”
#auspol

"In every version, women are told: your job is to anticipate men’s capacity for harm and adjust your life accordingly.

"Meanwhile, men get to harm, deny, organise, recruit and then — if caught — produce the classic defence: “I thought it was fine.”"

#auspol

"It’s the same old patriarchal logic: women are responsible for managing male violence.” #auspol

(Yes, I’m reposting a lot of quote from this piece because it’s a timely ‘connection of dots’ that just full of sharp, insightful … quotable … lines).

"Women, meanwhile, become the vessel for national disgust. The perfect container for a public morality play because they’re visible and culturally legible. You can point at them and say: see, this is what happens when women step outside acceptable scripts.” #auspol

"But here’s the part that should make Australia choke on its own righteousness: if the core claim in these cases is “she was groomed” [Kirsty Rosse-Emile], then the question becomes: do we believe grooming is real, or only when it flatters our existing prejudices?” #auspol

"When men go to join violent extremist movements, we call them fighters, terrorists, threats.
"When women do it, we call them brides.” #auspol

"Contempt is not policy. It is theatre, a press conference emotion designed to play well in talkback radio. And contempt is also — let’s be honest — gendered.” #auspol

"And notice how much administration is involved in male violence when it’s sustained … it’s patriarchy with project management. Society’s response is usually the same too: individualise it; pathologise it. Turn it into a one-off horror so we don’t have to admit it’s a pattern.” #auspol

“The trick we keep refusing to learn: misogyny doesn’t need a costume, it wears everyday clothing." #auspol