After days of chaos, the Adelaide Festival board is down to one person, and Adelaide Writers’ Week has now been officially cancelled.
With the vast majority of participants withdrawing, and all the board members bar one having resigned, the decision to ‘univite’ Randa Abdel-Fattah has paid off for those fighting against free speech in Australia; Adelaide Writers Week has been cancelled.
“…the event can no longer go ahead as scheduled for this year,” the statement says. “We recognise and deeply regret the distress this decision has caused to our audience, artists and writers, donors, corporate partners, the government and our own staff and people.”
And the clincher:
“We also apologise to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah for how the decision was represented and reiterate this is not about identity or dissent but rather a continuing rapid shift in the national discourse around the breadth of freedom of expression in our nation following Australia’s worst terror attack in history.”
They’ve done it again, invoked Bondi, as they did from the start. In short, the Bondi shooters have won, with the Zionist lobby applauding them killing off a free and open cultural discourse in Australia.
Kim Wingerei is a businessman turned writer and commentator. He is passionate about free speech, human rights, democracy and the politics of change. Originally from Norway, Kim has lived in Australia for 30 years. Author of ‘Why Democracy is Broken – A Blueprint for Change’.