How Lobby Pressure Wrecked Adelaide Writers Week | The West Report

by Michael West | Jan 12, 2026 | The West Report

They’ve wrecked Adelaide Writers Week, South Australia’s premier cultural event. We examine the Israel lobby’s sabotage and the craven capitulation of Premier Peter Malinauskas and the board of the Adelaide Festival under pressure from the Murdoch press.

This is just the latest destruction. We unfurl the list of other ideological demo-jobs from Bendigo Writers to assorted arts and media attacks; and Cathy Wilcox, the Herald and Age cartoonist who they just threw under the bus.

 

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Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.

 

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