The Adelaide Festival board has named a veteran literary festival boss to plot a new course for Adelaide Writers’ Week after the most turbulent time in its history.
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"Documents obtained via Freedom of Information confirm the former Adelaide Festival Board removed Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from its 2026 Writers’ Week lineup because it feared government intervention, despite pleas from a festival leader, InDaily can reveal."
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Randa Abdel-Fattah and Lousie Adler will be part of alt-writers week Constellations. Reports @helen-karakulak.bsky.social
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The Adelaide festival generated $62.6 million in gross expenditure for South Australia in 2025 - Writers’ Week pulled in a record-breaking 160,000 attendees. @davidsimmons94.bsky.social reports: www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...
Despite being down four members, including its chair, the premier says the Adelaide Festival board is functional. www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...
11 of the states former Festival leaders have called on the AF board to reinstate Randa Abdel-Fattah and called out the arts institution board’s lack of artists.
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"Sarah Game’s late-term abortion bill has failed to clear the lower house, 36 to nine, meaning it would not become law.
Both the Premier and the Opposition leader voted in favour of Game’s bill, but neither rose to debate in the lower house tonight."
The Adelaide Festival board has named a veteran literary festival boss to lead Adelaide Writers’ Week after its cancellation in 2026.
Today the third attempt in 2 years to restrict late-term abortions passed one house of SA parliament, but ultimately failed. The relentless debate has dominated SA politics, and targeted women like Tayla-Jane who went public about her abortion.
