Fatigued. Enraged. So heartbroken. Our kids are our future. The way First Nations children’s lives are devalued is reflective of the way anti-Indigenous racism works across the board. From segregation, to assimilation, to reconciliation to 26 January 2026, Blak futures continue to be erased #auspol

🖤 📖 Cover reveal 📖🖤 'Wurnan, Sharing on Ngarinyin Country' is a stunning hardcover book written by the Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation about the practice of 'Wurnan', the philosophy of sharing and sustainability that underpins their custodianship. 📆 Out 10 February. Designed by Emilia Toia.

Magabala stands with our mates at Clothing The Gaps and their #NotTheDateToCelebrate campaign. In the wise words of Kirli Saunders: "Mate, you're standing on stolen land." ('Returning', 2023)

Are Israel critics to be muzzled while the Lobby keeps bashing them? Constitutional lawyer Anne Twomey @ConversationEDU on implications of Hate Speech Bill #auspol michaelwest.com.au/stopping-pro...

“Mr Reece described the vandals as "idiots," adding they failed to understand the historic significance of the monuments they targeted.” Umm…. Perhaps the opposite?

It’s four days before the Jan 26 Day of Mourning, marking invasion, marking the beginning of the killing times where many massacres of First Nations people occurred on this continent. Some on beaches like Bondi. #auspol australian.museum/learn/first-...

#abcnews First breath: ‘11 people, including 3 journalists and two 13 year old boys, killed by Israel in Gaza strike.” In the next breath, “fragile ceasefire”. These utterances in the same sentence is complicity. To be clear, the ceasefire is over. #auspol

For those asking, the #SundayShot returns on Sunday February 1. If you haven't already, get ready for 2026 by subscribing to our channel so you never miss an episode👇! www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot

To celebrate the publication of The Library That Made Me: 200 Years of the State Library of NSW, an illustrious line-up of contributors reflect on the libraries that shaped them as readers and writers. Get tickets: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/libra...

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🖤 📖 Cover reveal 📖🖤 'Muttonfish Magic' is a vivid and immersive children's picture book written by Aunty Ruth Simms and Lucy Robertson, illustrated by Jasmine Seymour. Check it out: bit.ly/4qa7yjH 📆 Out 10 February. Cover designed by Jo Hunt.

“Those responsible for the climate crisis must be made to pay for the mess they have made,” writes @alexkelly.bsky.social, Director of the Economic Media Centre and a filmmaker, based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Read Alex Kelly’s full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

What a privledge to listen to these two formidable, compassionate and incredibly intelligent women discuss the shit show that has become the Adelaide Festival. Cutting through the noise, Dr Randa Abdul-Fattah in convo with Jan Fran for @ettemedia.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...

Thank you Bridget McKenzie for demonstrating exactly what any racially literate person already knows: anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Zionism is a political ideology. In fact, to conflate Zionism with Judaism is not only culturally unsafe (fyi Malinauskas), it is… antisemitic #auspol

Devoid of logic

Statement from our client Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. It is a tragedy that Adelaide Writers' Week has been destroyed, for nothing. However, this is a massive win for artistic freedom and hopefully a turning point in this time of unhinged McCarthyist witch-hunting. Randa is a hero and we love her.

To be clear: Malinauskas misappropriated an Indigenous concept and practice (cultural safety) to justify the erasure of a Palestinian writer at the behest of lobbyists in the name of Zionism as settler colonial project!

1/8 Malinauskas has misappropriated cultural safety. Cultural safety cannot be invoked without racial literacy or it is a meaningless exercise. Racial literacy requires that BOTH the interpersonal AND structural/systemic nature of racism is examined. Cultural un-safety is a form of racism. #auspol

We're thrilled to announce the acquisition of the experimental poetry collection 'Damn Good Television' by debut Jabirr Jabirr author and lead singer of rock band Selve, Loki Liddle. Read more: bit.ly/3YDwG6o

This is absolutely terrifying. With more than a quarter of the town being First Nations people & the hyper-surveillance of Blak towns folk under the racist Suspect Target Management Plans already endemic - how is this not getting more attention? #auspol #royalcommission

Really glad to see this romance anthology from Magabala getting some attention!

‘Over generations, the survival of our communities in the face of ongoing colonial violence is in part due to those who refused to be silenced or erased; those who spoke up despite attempts to deny our existence.’ As a Blak arts organisation we stand in solidarity with Dr Abdel-Fattah.

We stand in solidarity with the festival staff, authors and organisations who have withdrawn from the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week, as a response to the alarmingly censorial removal from the program of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah by the Adelaide Festival Board. Read the statement: bit.ly/4sIHM7Y

Few words. My @smh @theage cartoon

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Solving antisemitism by *checks notes* making a Jewish woman their scapegoat and target.

The incident occurred on Saturday, a media release was sent out on Sunday and still the Melbourne media including The Age haven’t covered it. There is no reason for this other than pure racism.

Shocking/Ignored: If the victim was a Rabbi this would have been front page news in every MSM outlet, there would have been Press Conferences/condemnation/outrage from PM & Opposition leaders etc. Unsurprisingly there's #crickets instead. #auspol #Islamophobia www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Daisy Utemorrah Award is open for entries! 🌼🏆 Read more here: bit.ly/4pcpKYM This Award is generously supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund and the State Government of Western Australia. Illustration by Pat Torres from 'Do Not Go Around the Edges' by Daisy Utemorrah.

“We need a society that values its visionaries, those who go against the grain to create new dreams that reveal other ways of being,” writes Ben Quilty in his essay, Collective Ambition, featured in A Time for Bravery. Buy your copy of A Time for Bravery: australiainstitute.org.au/store/A-Time...

“[The Adelaide Festival Board] is saying that a woman who calls Israel a genocidal state, and is herself Palestinian and descended from people who are survivors of the Nakba, does not belong in the collective psyche of this nation.” - Sisonke Msimang on Substack open.substack.com/pub/sisonkem...

Dr Gary Foley, Melbourne/Naarm, Jan 11 "A small group of Zionists demanding a royal commission are the same people cheering on the genocide of Palestine." "Aboriginal people had our own royal commission 30 years ago. Nothing was done. 600 of us have died in prison since"

“‘Stanner’s “great Australian silence” has now apparently been extended to Palestinians. Like “good” Aboriginal people, “good” Palestinians must now be invisible, silent and complicit in the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.” Melissa Lucashenko www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...

Meanwhile….

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

“In the end, the Adelaide Writers Festival will be left with panellists who demonise a Palestinian out of one side of their mouths while waxing lyrical about freedom of speech from the other.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I will be withdrawing from two panels I was to chair at Adelaide Writers Week 2026. I stand in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, and other Palestinian Australian writers. I urge all writers to do the same. Watch out for statements from SA mob. www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...

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.

Statement from @australiainstitute.org.au on Adelaide Festival.

I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.

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.

Well, I was going to be on a panel at the Adelaide Writers' Festival but I'm not any more.

What’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.

Randa Abdel-Fattah’s erasure from the Adelaide Festival is anti-Palestinian & anti-Arab racism. It signals to Palestinian, Arab, and significantly, anyone who is anti-genocide, including Jewish anti-Zionist’s: you’re not welcome here & your existence is implicated in the Bondi terror attack.

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

"The idea that any criticism of Israel and the Israeli government – including through protests, social media posts, or boycotts – are inherently antisemitic is a total fallacy. No government is beyond reproach." – Sarah Schwartz, Human Rights lawyer Opposing #Zionism ≠ #Antisemitism #FreePalestine

As you’re out and about running around purchasing gifts for people, take a moment and send a few dollars to the Sameer Project’s “GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA” campaign chuffed.org/project/1491... 🙏🏽❤️‍🩹

A beautiful critique of false balance

AUKUS Parliamentary Inquiry needed! Add your signature here: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/aukus_parlia...