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Adelaide writers’ week sacrificed to save city’s prestigious arts festival, documents show https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/28/adelaide-writers-week-2026-cancelled-to-save-festival #AdelaideWritersWeek #AdelaideFestival #Culture #SouthAustralia #AustraliaNews #Adelaide #Books
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After collapse and controversy, Adelaide writers’ week has a new director: ‘I don’t envy anyone in this position’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/23/after-collapse-and-controversy-adelaide-writers-week-has-a-new-director-i-dont-envy-anyone-in-this-position #AdelaideWritersWeek #Adelaide #AustraliaNews #AdelaideFestival #NewcastleAndTheHunter #Culture #Festivals #Books
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My advice to the South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas.
“Don’t cling to a mistake just because you put in a lot of effort making it.”
#freeadvice #auspol #southaustralia #Adelaidefestival #adelaidewritersweek #censorship #FreeSpeech
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I've had a deep appreciation for Adler as long as I've been aware of her but it's remarkable how strongly she's stepped up and the courage with which she's done so
'According to Berg, Adler and the festival’s top leadership had issued a comply-or-resign ultimatum to the board to force Friedman’s withdrawal, an irony Berg noted was seemingly lost on the authors boycotting the festival'
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Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah
Gracious, aware and informed.#auspol #adelaide #adelaidewritersweek #Adelaidefestival #Censorship #FreeSpeech #Palestine #IsraelTerroristState
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Adelaide festival has finally provided the apology that should have been made sooner.
No weasel words, acknowledges the decision was wrong, accepts it caused harm, makes plans to behave differently in the future.
Glad to see saner heads have prevailed.
Your move Peter Malinauskas.
#auspol #adelaide #Adelaidefestival #adelaidewritersweek #Censorship
https://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/statement-15-january-2026
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A non-apology from the Adelaide writers festival.
For the avoidance of doubt the decision was improper, not the communication of that decision.
Dr Abdel-Fattah gets it.
"We also apologise to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah for how the decision was represented and reiterate this is not about identity or dissent but rather a continuing rapid shift in the national discourse around the breadth of freedom of expression in our nation following Australia's worst terror attack in history."
In a post on Instagram, Abdel-Fattah said she rejected the board's apology.
#AusPol #adelaide #Adelaidefestival #adelaidewritersweek #notanapology #foreigninterference #Bondi -
Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide writers’ week
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jan/13/louise-adler-resigns-as-director-of-adelaide-writers-week-ntwnfbRespect for Louise Adler, and admiration for her sense of integrity.
After the Board overruled her and cancelled Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s invitation, she resigned from her position of Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week.
"I cannot be party to silencing writers, so with a heavy heart I am resigning from my role as the director of the AWW."
Speaking as the daughter of Jewish Holocaust survivors, and whose grandfather and extended family were murdered by Nazis, she implores us not to look away from what Israel is doing in Palestine.
"And that it is incumbent upon humanity to look at what is happening in Gaza now and to say, ‘We will not accept this. We will say no, not in our name.’"#AdelaideFestival #AdelaideWritersWeek #AusPol #LouiseAdler #RandaAbdelFattah
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Adelaide Festival board decided last week to rescind an invitation for author Randa Abdel-Fattah to speak at Adelaide Writers' Week. All board members have now resigned and AWW 2026 has been cancelled following more than 180 writers pulling out of the event.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-13/adelaide-writers-week-cancelled-randa-abdel-fattah-controversy/106225170#AdelaideFestival #authors #books #Palestine #RandaAbdelFattah #Solidarity WritersWeek
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Three board members resign from Adelaide festival as Randa Abdel-Fattah sends legal notice | Adelaide festival | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jan/11/three-board-members-resign-from-adelaide-festival-as-randa-abdel-fattah-sends-legal-notice-ntwnfb -
#randaabdelfattah #writersweek #Adelaidefestival #Adelaide #australia #zionism #Malinauskas
Goss;
TLDR; Mali lied.
"Someone in the Palestine coordinating group posted this.
According to an insider I spoke with yesterday evening the line of pressure for axing the WW attendance of Dr Abdel-Fattah came directly from Premier Malinauskas to the AF board.
They failed to resist this demand and accordingly required the WW execs to withdraw the invitation to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah.
So this means maximum activist pressure must be put on Malinauskas who must be persuaded to agree to the ban being revoked.
Malinauskas was being disingenuous when he said he could not order the AF board to axe the writer even though he approved of it. He may not be able order the axing by decree but he could certainly put an awful lot of pressure of various kinds on the AF board behind the scenes.
The AF board itself might have been quite ready to do his bidding since they are bureaucrats, not artists."
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50 writers boycott Adelaide festival after it dumps pro-Palestine academic Randa Abdel-Fattah
#AdelaideFestival #Boycott #Palestine #RandaAbdelFattah #Solidarity #WritersWeek
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Palestinian author seeks to be reinstated to Adelaide Writers' Week
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-09/sa-palestinian-author-calls-for-apology-over-writers-week-axing/106212878#AdelaideFestival #Authors #Palestine #RandaAbdelFattah #Solidarity #WritersWeek