This year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week has been cancelled following a debacle that involved a boycott by more than 180 participants, board members quitting and the event’s director stepping down. There was outrage about the board’s decision to remove Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from the rundown citing cultural sensitivities in the wake of the Bondi terror attack. Today, Denis Muller from the Centre for Advancing Journalism at Melbourne Uni on the damage done and what it means for free speech. Featured: Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne and co-host of the Truth, Lies and Media podcast

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