Final update tonight. Andrew Denton is also out. Have also crossed out Michael Veitch & Tracey Lee Holmes as they were part of Better Off Said, which is out. Remember the list is a not final. Don't assume those not crossed out are going Others to be found here www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...

Denton, Garner, FitzSimons, Dalton, de Krester, Hammer, Lette, Zadie Smith... It is very much at the point where the lower risk is actually to drop out. That is the mainstream position. The Festival board (and those who support them) are the extremists.

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

CANCEL HERZOG @albomp.bsky.social 🇵🇸

Hard to believe that a former SDA official would do something like this eh. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Country businesses ain't Coles or Woolies. They're ya local pub, ya local bakery, general store, the local IGA or Foodworks, small community businesses that step up. ColeWorth only does such for marketing and free press in the MSM and on the 6pm news. Local businesses don't wait for that. The PR.

Today's shift on the Fogarty's Gap fire was emotionally hard. We spent time going down streets to assess houses for damage. Walking around the ruins of someone's home, their loved gardens, their fruit trees, now all a tangled heap of metal & beams, is heartbreaking. Feeling sad for so much loss.

The Washington National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center after 55 years of performing there due to the orange felon’s literal trashing of the arts. Good for them and very sad on a historical standpoint.

Uplifting interaction between Jamal & Rosie 👏❤️ www.instagram.com/reel/DTUAlTv...

Sleeper issue in all this 👇

ICE comes to town in America, where they NOW have "Community Safety Ambassadors" !

Victoria fires wonderful news- the three people reported missing have been found safe

#PalistinianLiberation 🇵🇸

Whilstever the Israeli government is led by an indicted war criminal, rescind Herzog invitation! Make #CancelHerzog a viral hashtag #️⃣

Sudan 🇸🇩 to ➡️ Australia 🇦🇺 #Proud www.instagram.com/reel/DTQOwki...

Would you accept US$100,000 to be under US control? #Ownership

If social cohesion in Australia means accepting this ⬇️ I want NO part of it !

For the record as I am being asked, I made a personal decision as an author to send this to my friend Louise Adler earlier today. #Adelaidewritersweek

Stephen Miller’s cousin 👇🏽

🚨 BREAKING: from X New sources confirm that JONATHAN ROSS is the ICE agent that murdered Renee Nicole Good. He was trained by the IDF as an agent of ICE.

that’s 120°F folks

Map of temperatures in Australia now

After Bondi, calls for a Royal Commission appeared overnight, delivered by rotating groups using identical language. That is astroturfing, a PR tactic that simulates grassroots demand to manufacture urgency, crowd out scrutiny, and lock in policy before evidence is tested. More on YT

"The fact that criticism of Deborah Conway was one of the only examples Albanese cited as to why this Royal Commission was required reveals both what campaigners for this inquiry want to focus on, and what the government hopes it will achieve: the criminalisation of criticism aimed at Israel."

THEY SHOT THEM IN A FUCKING HOSPITAL FUCKING PARKING LOT

A decade apart. Same politician. You couldn’t script a sharper reversal on free speech.

Excellent to see the expanding list of writers pulling out of the bigoted Adelaide Writers Festival. Please look out for their work and support them if you can. #Auspol

The incredible Melbourne based Sikh Volunteers have already arrived in Seymour to provide meals to those affected by the nearby #VictorianBushFires Strange how they’re always there to assist EVERYONE affected by disasters. This is social cohesion in action. #auspol

portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.

This is how the Oz are reporting the (main??) criticism of Bell: she once made a decision with others on the HIGH COURT about environmental protest law bans (I remember covering those, draconian) that was later CITED by a different court to allow anti genocide protests to go ahead. My god.

Crackdown. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Pathological fear of 'the wedge' #Wedgephobia Prognosis:- will eventually cause political paralysis.

When Trump declared “I won’t say cancel the election, they should cancel the election because the fake news will say ‘he wants the elections canceled. He’s a dictator.’ They always call me a dictator,” he was following his standard playbook. Next he'll say "many people are saying..."

No Adelaide Writers Week for me. I can’t in any good conscience now appear at a festival seeking to mute a very necessary public conversation … Randa Abdel-Fattah is an important voice. Here’s something I published from her on, guess what, Palestinian marginalisation. meanjin.com.au/latest/the-g...

This is just the start of the backlash

Terms of reference for the royal commission:

Australia's 'own' nuclear powered subs #AUKUS are "expected" in 2040. What will our world 🌎 look like by then ?

Julian Assange was ALWAYS right, AND as it turns out, an oracle. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

"An attack on one is an attack on all."

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

🆘 #GAZA UNDER #ATTACK🆘 #Israel #killed 2 #Palestinians and injured many others on a strike on a home in eastern Gaza, claiming the attack responded to an alleged Hamas assault ONCE AGAIN WITHOUT PROOF! 😡🙏🏽🇵🇸☮️ #WhatCeaseFire @whitehouse-47.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @apnews.com

What happens when America's abuse of authority goes global? Democracy. You give your consent to yohttps://youtu.be/MYwkhl13kGA?si=O7k7lW5aCHzKNBZi

Oh sorry, I haven’t been online that much tonight, I’ve been forced to help organize a safety patrol at my kid’s daycare, because ICE stopped by today.

In the space of ONE week, we've gone from.. 'holy shite, hope 2026 is better than 2025' to where we now live in a world that has radically changed from everything we've ever known all our lives !

ICE agents in Minneapolis have been recorded REFUSING a physician, presenting in the crowd, permission to treat the victim.

We have been taken. See how insidiously it happens? # BoycottAdelaideFestival

Ice killed a 37 year old and Kristie Noam is wearing a cowboy hat

Wow

Zionist are a hate group. Any Royal Commission needs to as a priority look into how the Israeli govt is interfering into Australia domestic politics.