Acting Leader of the Australian Greens and Arts & Communications spokesperson Sen. Sarah Hanson-Young said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like a lot of South Australians today, I am deeply disturbed the Adelaide\u2019s beloved Writers Festival has been ruined by this terrible decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The decision to drop Palestinian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers Festival is deeply concerning and should be reversed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Freedom of expression and the exchange of ideas are what makes writers festivals what they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Engaging in respectful, thoughtful debate and challenging ideas and opinions is the whole purpose of an event like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Censorship and shutting down diverse voices, including Palestinian voices is the antithesis of an open, free and respectful democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
South Australia has a proud history of our arts festivals and supporting artist freedom of expression. This craven decision will leave our state and our reputation as the festival state in tatters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens will continue to advocate for artists to do their work free of political interference and pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As both a regular panelist and supporter of the AWW I am extremely disappointed and saddened that the Adelaide Festival board has made this decision. It is a bad decision and should be reversed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Acting Leader of the Australian Greens and Arts & Communications spokesperson Sen. Sarah Hanson-Young said: Like a lot of South Australians today, I am deeply disturbed the Adelaide\u2019s beloved Writers Festival has been ruined by this terrible decision. The decision to drop Palestinian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers Festival is deeply concerning and should … Continue reading “Greens: Palestinian writer’s cancellation from Adelaide Writers Festival”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36832,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36826\/revisions\/36832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}