AARON PATRICK: Even South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas wasn’t powerful enough to shut down anti-Israel academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has been reinvited to speak at the Adelaide Writers’ Festival.
As an arts festival picks up the pieces after an author cancellation triggered a huge boycott, organisations are being urged to stare down lobby pressure.
Adelaide Writers’ Week has been cancelled after director Louise Adler quit over Randa Abdel-Fattah being uninvited from the festival over her anti-Israel views.
A stampede of writers have withdrawn from an Adelaide festival after an anti-Israel academic, Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, had her appearance cancelled in the wake of the Bondi massacre.
A state MP accused of assaulting a woman and breaching an intervention order will remain behind bars awaiting a home detention report, a court has ruled.