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Currently Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week.
- The South Australian Premier on ABC radio “ I absolutely made it very clear to the board that I did not think it was wise to have someone who has been accused of antisemitism at best or done it at worst , appearing at Writers’ Week”.
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- A week before the Bondi shooting the Lions of Zion held a “ family friendly” party in a Melbourne park, celebrating the Mossad pager attack which killed 42 people and injured 4000.
- Frydenberg bloviating, in an Oscar winning performance @fergusonnews.bsky.social at the reasonable question regarding the possibility he might be exploiting the Bondi atrocity in the service of his own political ambitions.
- On the Reading train is a trip down memory lane. Last century sat opposite F.R.Leavis .He disappeared into the toilet, leaving his briefcase on the seat. What was a young English Lit student to do ? What if Leavis had joined God’s other Great Critics in the sky?
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- Nothing new about letters / phone calls being used to intimidate arts orgs & silence artists.Lobby groups simply ramped up efforts in the last 22 months. hhttps://www.theage.com.au/culture/books/letter-to-bendigo-writers-festival-emerges-flagging-concern-over-palestinian-writer-20250818-p5mnpd.html
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- Shame on me , a book person , failing to spell an author’s name correctly . Forgive me @charlottemendelson.bsky.social
- @Charlottemendelsnon.bsky.social thanks for this tribute to Australia’s best literary festival .It was a joy to have you join us . “My uneasy relationship with birdlife continued, until Australia.
- Sad news today of the death of Rose Wight , a brilliant Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week and the co-founder of the Festival of Ideas . She was a passionate advocate for writing and reading and her festivals were unmissable for everyone in the book business.
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- Read this to understand the playbook that underpins the Segal report and the proposed “report card” to assess the compliance of Australian universities to the lobby’s edicts . www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Exhibit A re Israel’s policy of mass starvation? Oct 9th, 2023 then-Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”
- Gazans are not being starved as a matter of fiat by the Netanyahu government ? Really ?
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- Here’s the link to the Ha’aretz article. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- You can’t say you didn’t know . Adi Ronen Argov’s project documents the reality in Gaza and the West Bank on her website “The Daily File“ and collects data “Forcibly Involved”. “The children haunt me at night': A protest forces Israelis to face kids killed in Gaza.
- Devastating . “Our Palestinian friends on the West Bank sometimes say, correctly, “War or no war, it hardly matters—we are living on the edge of an abyss…If Israel’s external enemies have been temporarily defeated, the rampant internal illness of this country remains to be healed.”
- @cathywilcox.bsky.social nails it again! 👏👏👏
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- @jennaprice.bsky.social well said!
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- To understand the deeply ideological and dangerous implications of the Segal evidence-empty report , read Australia’s literary luminary #RichardFlanagan. www.smh.com.au/national/to-...
- I should add that it is an honour to be cited alongside #ProfessorBenSaul, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism.
- The Oz opinionistas matter little given the paper’s circulation but here’s a screenshot of their latest effort .Two women in Adelaide came up to me and said we like politics but more fiction please? Another attendee replied: if you want fiction buy The Australian. Gotta love our festival audience.
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- Plus ca change at The Oz… the campaign continues.
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- Joining the dots is always important : check out the Henroth Fund ( aka John Roth married to the Envoy to foster antisemitism) which donates to Advance Australia. What on earth was the Labor government thinking when it agreed to work with that lot ? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Let’s hope that the current government does not yield to this massive over reach . Even if you are so blinkered as to be only concerned with Jewish issues, exceptionalising Jews will foster antisemitism rather than defeat it . www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Mandatory viewing …And the Israeli government continues to describe the IDF as “ the most moral army in the world “. zeteo.com/p/watch-now-...
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- An Olympic worthy backflip after an appalling own goal by #CreativeAustralia. Requires the consumption of a large slice of humble pie.After the Latouffe débâcle and the MSO capitulation perhaps the #IsraelLobby will think twice about messing with artists? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
- I blame the indefatigable charm machine that is Savva Savas ( www.threefoodmemories.com ) for this trip down memory lane. Be warned, he doesn’t take “no” for an answer. pod.link/1591996058
- Always worth reading Amin Saikal www.theage.com.au/world/middle...
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- Useful to look to legal experts to understand the facts and decipher the barrage of misinformation .https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/16/australias-claim-that-israel-has-a-right-to-defend-itself-against-iran-is-inconsistent-with-our-rules-based-order?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
- This front page always makes me laugh .
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- .@Haaretzcom@bsky.social For those who don’t have access #GideonLevy goes on to write “The sanctions must be directed at the entire government, from Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, to the least senior government minister.
- .@Haaretz.com@bluesky.social #GideonLevy “ the Gaza Strip & Israel are desperate now for international sanctions that will lead to an end to the slaughter in Gaza.We can't wait any longer.Mumbling like the five countries won't suffice….
- When even Thomas Friedman calls out the atrocities perpetrated in Gaza by the Israeli govt one has to wonder why the Australian Zionist lobby has not expressed any criticism in 20 months of slaughter & destruction. Israeli Government Is a Danger to Jews Everywhere www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...
