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  • Federal minister backs axing of Palestinian author from writers’ festival | ‘Cannot be party to…

    Federal minister backs axing of Palestinian author from writers’ festival | ‘Cannot be party to…

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    Federal minister backs axing of Palestinian author from writers' festival

    Madeleine King is supporting the Adelaide Festival board's decision. (ABC News: Adam Kennedy)

    Federal cabinet minister Madeleine King has backed the Adelaide Festival's controversial decision to axe a Palestinian-Australian writer from its writers' week event.

    It is the first time a federal minister has offered their views on the growing furore, which has led multiple board members to step down and dozens of writers to pull out of the event. 

    A federal cabinet minister has backed the controversial call to axe a Palestinian-Australian author from the Adelaide writers' festival, amid a growing furore over the decision that has led several board members to resign and dozens of writers to withdraw from the literary event. 

    ‘Cannot be party to silencing writers’: Louise Adler resigns from Adelaide Writers’ Week

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    Louise Adler has resigned as director of Adelaide Festival’s Writers’ Week, saying she “cannot be party to silencing writers” after the festival board removed Palestinian-Australian writer Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from this year’s program.

    Writing for The Guardian, Adler said she did so “with a heavy heart”.

    It is the first time Adler has spoken since the board’s decision, which she argued vehemently against, was revealed last Thursday. Since then, four members of the Adelaide Festival board have resigned, including the chair, and writers have pulled out en masse. Adler says her count is 180.

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    Adelaide Festival Chair among departures following boycott | This is after the event descended into controversy following the exclusion of a pro-Palestinian author, which led to more than 70 speakers boycotting the literary gathering.

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  • Palestinian author calls for apology as dozens quit Adelaide Writers’ Week | Star British author …

    Palestinian author calls for apology as dozens quit Adelaide Writers’ Week | Star British author …

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    Palestinian author calls for apology as dozens quit Adelaide Writers' Week

    Randa Abdel-Fattah told ABC Radio National on Friday that she would like an apology and for her invitation to be reinstated. (Bendigo Writers Festival)

    A Palestinian Australian author has been axed from Adelaide Writers' Week after its board said her appearance would "not be culturally sensitive" in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack. 

    Several authors, including Jane Caro, Hannah Kent and Peter Fitzsimons, have withdrawn from the festival citing concerns about freedom of speech. 

    Adelaide Writers' Week is scheduled to take place from February 28 to March 5.

    Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah has asked for an apology and "accountability" after she was axed from Adelaide Writers' Week, as dozens of authors cancel their appearances at the event.

    Star British author Zadie Smith joins dozens of authors boycotting Adelaide Writers’ Week

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    Star British author Zadie Smith has joined dozens of writers who have pulled out of this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week following the Adelaide Festival board’s decision to remove Palestinian-Australian writer Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from the line-up.

    Among the writers resigning from the event in protest are Pulitzer Prize-winning American Percival Everett, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, and American journalist Masha Gessen.

    Locally, Michelle de Kretser, Helen Garner, Melissa Lucashenko, Hannah Kent, Evelyn Araluen, Jane Caro and Peter Greste have withdrawn, as have Peter FitzSimons and Kate Halfpenny, writers for this masthead. Richard Flanagan, while not on the line-up, has expressed support for those who have boycotted.

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    As authors abandon Adelaide Writers’ Week after cancelling of Randa Abdel-Fattah, is free speech in tatters?

    Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne

    Denis Muller does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

    University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU.

    The decision by the Adelaide Festival Board to exclude Palestinian Australian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers’ Week on the grounds of “cultural sensitivity” is based on a dangerously broad and vague criterion for suppressing free speech.

    The board appears to have overruled Writer’s Week director Louise Adler to remove Abdel-Fattah from the program, arguing it would not be culturally sensitive to include her so soon after the Bondi terror attacks, due to her “past statements”.

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