More on AI garbage: 'They often contained expressions such as “this situation highlights,” “reignites the debate,” “illustrates tensions,” or “raises questions.”' theconversation.com/i-used-ai-ch...

With artists, patrons, businesses pulling the pin, we are witnessing the Premier’s unfolding leadership disaster: ‘Adelaide Festival’s 2025 Impact Report showing it generated $62.6 million in gross expenditure for SA, spent by the 365,402 total attendees.’. www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

Not the biggest thing of all the atrocious things, but I feel very sorry for the casual workers in hospitality etc. who will be severely out of pocket due to the Adelaide Writers’ Week clusterfuck. Those who caused this doubtless couldn’t care less.

Australia: Voted no for an indigenous voice to parliament (which we need) but has a Zionist voice to parliament that we didn’t vote for (and don’t need).

Let's remember that Malinauskus banned protest because oil/gas. Creep.

What is happening to the arts in my hometown 😦!

One vile aspect of the Adelaide Writers' Week collapse (and the ridiculous Malinauskus intervention) is that it distracts from the fact that Israel is still conducting a live genocide. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

‘Not the Premier’s Bookclub’. Indeed. And disingenuous in the extreme to think that voicing his self-described ‘strong’ opinion about Dr Abdel-Fattah to the Festival Bd - which his govt appoints and funds - does not compromise the independence of Writers Week. Own goal Premier- & v costly to SA.

The Adelaide Writers Festival now wrecked by the Adelaide Festival Board, half of which was appointed late last year: a marketing executive; a former politician; a local councillor/real estate agent; an airport manager; a lawyer; a media consultant; and a banker. Another public arts takeover fiasco.

No-one should buy this. He’s neck deep in it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I can't find the word to describe how I feel about Malinauskus, but it's not positive and hasn't been for some time tbh. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

My information is that this is an out and out lie. It's extraordinary that the SA Premier sees no problem trashing the reputation of one of the few organisations in his state that is internationally celebrated as a leader in its field. Don Dunstan must be turning in his grave.

ABC Creative Australia SLV SLQ Bendigo Writers Fest Sydney Theatre Co MSO NGA Monash Museum of Art Meanjin Adelaide Writers Week…

As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi. A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.

BREAKING ABC announces new TV show You Can’t Say That In Case You Offend Zionists, where a panel of arts festival board members guess what possibly offend Zionists and adjust their festival line ups accordingly

Following the decision from the Board of the Adelaide Festival, The Australia Institute is withdrawing its support from this year’s literary festival. Here is our statement, and a personal one from me.

My statement regarding my decision to withdraw from this year’s Adelaide Writers Festival.

4/ Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s statement on her cancellation from Adelaide Writers Week:

Randa Abdel-Fattah uninvited from Adelaide Writers’ Week, because of Bondi, even though they "do not suggest in any way that Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s or her writings have any connection with the tragedy at Bondi." She just can't come anymore. Because Bondi. www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...

It’s incredibly disturbing that so many Australian institutions and leaders can reproduce vicious assertions without evidence about the link between Palestinian rights campaigns and the Bondi killings, then use these assertions to ban people from public discourse.

Absolutely disgraceful from the Adelaide Festival. I hope other participants reconsider their part in it.

I thought the programme was tonnes better this year, but hey Palestine is off the agenda.

As if the previous EIGHT or so long years of cautious and banal Adelaide Festival programming weren't dispiriting enough

"Don't mention the genocide"

Pathetic crap from Adelaide Writers' Week: www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...

Here's the thing: it fucking IS more important.

The ABC finally decides that local heatwave/bushfire news is more important than US fuckwittery and foreign interference.

Let’s add invading #Venezuela 🇻🇪 to this sorry list of ‘shared values’

God the USA is a toxic force in the world.

2026, how ridiculous.

Japan gradually catching up (it's fabulous in so many other ways, obvs): www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

The richest 10% of Australian households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the childcare subsidy, government schools or higher education - nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost to include dental in Medicare.

Large SUVs and utes are 82% more likely to kill children in collisions- 44% more likely to kill adult pedestrians or cyclists. They damage our roads and add to air pollution, harming our health.

"The invitation to the President of Israel as head of a state responsible for genocidal acts is immoral, cowardly, illegal and wrong." #GazaGenocide #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

The NACC has defied the odds by going back-to-back 🏆🏆 After another year of doing absolutely nothing, congratulations on retaining Stranger’s Useless Govt Agency Award. Consistency is key 👍

Could be wrong, but each decade from the 1920s to the 1990s 'feels' like it has an overarching social theme. This seems missing from the 2000s and 2010s -- unless it was perhaps 'denial' or even 'denialism'. The 2020s are obviously 'covid, fascism and genocide'...

More fascism from the USA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How in the jingle-busting fuck do we live in a world where tens of millions are getting ready to celebrate the birthday of a Palestinian baby they wouldn’t feed, clothe or save from being bombed to smithereens were he alive today? #NewsCorpse

In 2025 (nearly 2026) there is just no excuse for eating animals. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

This seems like wild policy (if being accurately reported) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Linda Reynolds again restoring her reputation by being bitter to the wrong person. 🤬 #IStandWithBrittany #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Words fail me. www.dw.com/en/germany-s...

Terrifying www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Boycott Israel, boycott USA, boycott GERMANY, fuck!

The signal this sends is WILD. There's no 'centrist' or 'reasonable' position on genocide. For Germany of all places to show solidarity with a genocidal regime really is unconscionable. www.dw.com/en/germanys-...