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When you're not afraid to burn the house down, so that everyone arguing over who gets what rooms has to live with you in the ashes, when you become scorched-earth-native, you can build better than the house, over which you were arguing. #AdelaideWritersWeek
*Vyvian, lighting the bed on fire, in an argument with Rik over who gets the bedroom* #Darmok
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-07/constellations-not-writers-week-adelaide/106420422
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I assume the organisers of the Canberra Writers' Festival are praying to all the festival Gods that ACT Labor and/or ACTPol take offence and crack-down on something in order to provide a similar boost in patronage. 🙏
"On March 1, Louise Adler will be talking to Randa Abdel-Fattah on stage at a packed Adelaide Town Hall."
https://michaelwest.com.au/streisand-effect-long-waitlist-for-not-adelaide-writers-week/
#Canberra #CanberraWritersFestival #auspol #Adelaide #AdelaideWritersWeek #ACTPol
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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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CW: Thomas Friedman
Putting myself out a limb here but I don’t think either #randaabdelfattah or #thomasfriedman should be silenced. They both bring prospective on a complex issue. Friedman may be less passionate than Abdel-Fattah but that could be put down to personal experience. I think they both have said things that I don’t agree with but like most people, who aren’t evil, they have said many good/important things. I would have liked to have seen both at the #adelaidewritersweek
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CW: Thomas Friedman
Putting myself out a limb here but I don’t think either #randaabdelfattah or #thomasfriedman should be silenced. They both bring prospective on a complex issue. Friedman may be less passionate than Abdel-Fattah but that could be put down to personal experience. I think they both have said things that I don’t agree with but like most people, who aren’t evil, they have said many good/important things. I would have liked to have seen both at the #adelaidewritersweek
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CW: Thomas Friedman
Putting myself out a limb here but I don’t think either #randaabdelfattah or #thomasfriedman should be silenced. They both bring prospective on a complex issue. Friedman may be less passionate than Abdel-Fattah but that could be put down to personal experience. I think they both have said things that I don’t agree with but like most people, who aren’t evil, they have said many good/important things. I would have liked to have seen both at the #adelaidewritersweek
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CW: Thomas Friedman
Putting myself out a limb here but I don’t think either #randaabdelfattah or #thomasfriedman should be silenced. They both bring prospective on a complex issue. Friedman may be less passionate than Abdel-Fattah but that could be put down to personal experience. I think they both have said things that I don’t agree with but like most people, who aren’t evil, they have said many good/important things. I would have liked to have seen both at the #adelaidewritersweek
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Adelaide Festival board resigns and Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled after 180 authors pull out in protest of Zionist board decision to disinvite Palestinian author.
Remember this, if you’re a Zionist: like the Nazis before you, you are committing genocide, you are on the wrong side of history, and – as long as there are people of good moral character and conscience to oppose you – you will not succeed. Your only allies are the MAGAs of the world and those too spineless to stand up to them and to fascism. And your entire movement that conflates support for settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide with being Jewish is fundamentally antisemitic, an affront to Jews who oppose Zionism, and makes Jews everywhere less safe.
#AWW #AdelaideWritersWeek #RandaAbdelFattah #zionism #israel #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopZionism #FreePalestine
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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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RE: https://aus.social/@fixatedpersonsunit/115885399613247151
#Adelaidewritersweek 2026 #cancelled as board apologises to #RandaAbdelFattah for ‘how decision was represented’. #auspol
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RE: https://aus.social/@fixatedpersonsunit/115885399613247151
#Adelaidewritersweek 2026 #cancelled as board apologises to #RandaAbdelFattah for ‘how decision was represented’. #auspol
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Adelaide writers’ week 2026 cancelled as board apologises to Randa Abdel-Fattah for ‘how decision was represented’ | Adelaide festival | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jan/13/adelaide-writers-week-cancelled-as-board-apologises-to-randa-abdel-fattah-for-how-decision-was-represented-ntwnfb"Adelaide writers’ week 2026 has been cancelled after days of turmoil as more than 180 authors and speakers dropped out in protest of the decision to disinvite the Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah."
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Via @cathywilcox
#LouiseAdler has resigned as director of Adelaide Writers' Week after organisers removed #Palestinian #Australian author #RandaAbdelFattah from this year's program.
This follows days of fallout from the decision to drop Abdel-Fattah & about 180 writers, commentators & academics have pulled out, including #JacindaArdern, bestselling author #ZadieSmith, Pulitzer winner #PercivalEverett & one of Australia's most decorated writers, #HelenGarner.
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Via @cathywilcox
#LouiseAdler has resigned as director of Adelaide Writers' Week after organisers removed #Palestinian #Australian author #RandaAbdelFattah from this year's program.
This follows days of fallout from the decision to drop Abdel-Fattah & about 180 writers, commentators & academics have pulled out, including #JacindaArdern, bestselling author #ZadieSmith, Pulitzer winner #PercivalEverett & one of Australia's most decorated writers, #HelenGarner.
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Via @cathywilcox
#LouiseAdler has resigned as director of Adelaide Writers' Week after organisers removed #Palestinian #Australian author #RandaAbdelFattah from this year's program.
This follows days of fallout from the decision to drop Abdel-Fattah & about 180 writers, commentators & academics have pulled out, including #JacindaArdern, bestselling author #ZadieSmith, Pulitzer winner #PercivalEverett & one of Australia's most decorated writers, #HelenGarner.
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Via @cathywilcox
#LouiseAdler has resigned as director of Adelaide Writers' Week after organisers removed #Palestinian #Australian author #RandaAbdelFattah from this year's program.
This follows days of fallout from the decision to drop Abdel-Fattah & about 180 writers, commentators & academics have pulled out, including #JacindaArdern, bestselling author #ZadieSmith, Pulitzer winner #PercivalEverett & one of Australia's most decorated writers, #HelenGarner.
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Via @cathywilcox
#LouiseAdler has resigned as director of Adelaide Writers' Week after organisers removed #Palestinian #Australian author #RandaAbdelFattah from this year's program.
This follows days of fallout from the decision to drop Abdel-Fattah & about 180 writers, commentators & academics have pulled out, including #JacindaArdern, bestselling author #ZadieSmith, Pulitzer winner #PercivalEverett & one of Australia's most decorated writers, #HelenGarner.