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Reply #30 - Jan 14^th, 2026 at 2:47pm

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:52pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 11:39am:

I would be interested to hear Abdel Fattah's thoughts on the Sydney shootings.

Well... she's suing Malinauskus for associating her with the Bondi massacre.

How did he do that exactly?

And she is not suing - she has sent a notice of defamation.

Long way off suing as yet.

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Reply #31 - Jan 14^th, 2026 at 2:53pm

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 2:07pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:54pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:52pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 11:39am:

I would be interested to hear Abdel Fattah's thoughts on the Sydney shootings.

Well... she's suing Malinauskus for associating her with the Bondi massacre.

Which means what? She has good lawyers?

It means she considers her use of terms like 'genocidal zionist occupier of Palestine' should not have been a cause of her dis-invitation to attend the Adelaide WW, as recommended by Malinauskas who cited "cultural sensibilities" after Bondi.

I reckon Malinauskas is in deep poo...

You use that term as well ..... says a lot about you & her.

What Malinauskas has said was in no way defaming & an terrorist supporting activist shouldn't be given a platform so soon after Bondi.

And as has been stated she made a call for someone else she didn't like to not allowed at the festival last year.

Hypocrites.

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Reply #32 - Jan 14^th, 2026 at 3:44pm

Gnads wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 2:47pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:52pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 11:39am:

I would be interested to hear Abdel Fattah's thoughts on the Sydney shootings.

Well... she's suing Malinauskus for associating her with the Bondi massacre.

How did he do that exactly?

I like Pete.

He was a work associate, and I got along with him extremely well.

Couldn't meet a nicer guy.

However, he should have stayed out of this.

“Can you imagine if a far-right Zionist walked into a Sydney mosque and murdered 15 people?” he said.

“Can you imagine that as the premier of this state, I would actively support a far-right Zionist going to writers’ week and speaking hateful rhetoric towards Islamic people? Of course I wouldn’t, but the reverse has happened in this instance. And I think that’s a reasonable position for me to take, it’s a view that I believe.”

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Daves2017 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3078 Gender:	Re: AU Adelaide Writers Week Festival cancelled Reply #33 - Jan 14^th, 2026 at 4:36pm I’m more concerned about the blue seaweed infection that is destroying tourism in South Australia and destroying the natural environment down there than anything to do with this indulgent sh.it show tbh
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Reply #34 - Jan 15^th, 2026 at 8:14am

Gnads wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 11:33am:

Frank wrote on Jan 13^th, 2026 at 9:52pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 13^th, 2026 at 7:36pm:

It was on The 7:30 Report on ABC tonight.

I've known Pete for more than 15 years, and he's a really, really decent bloke, but I'm not with him on this one.

He should have kept out of it.

He did, creep.

It was really the festival director, Louise Adler who insisted on including the pro Hamas activist woman in the line up.

The festival board said it would not be “culturally sensitive” to include her voice so soon after the tragedy, citing concerns about community tensions. Abdel-Fattah decried the decision as racism and censorship.
The **cking cheek of her.
In 2024 Abdel Fattah herself called for on the same festival to rescind the invitation of Jewish New York Times columnist.

Yes - it's one of these Islamists biggest faults - hypocrisy.

And Abdel-Fattah is a terrorist supporting anti-Semite/racist herself.

Muslims and lefties meet at that junction: hypocrisy. You cannot be either wighout being a comlkete and utter hypocrite and arse. So they invariably intertwine their hypocrisies.

Former Adelaide Writers Week director Louise Adler has been accused of hypocrisy over free speech after former Adelaide Festival board member and businessman Tony Berg claimed she had in 2024 issued an ultimatum over the cancellation of Jewish Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman.

In a letter sent to The Australian, Mr Berg claimed the direction Ms Adler was taking the festival was the reason he stood down from the board last year.

“I am now utterly astonished at Louise Adler’s statement in her resignation letter in support of free speech. I am likewise surprised by Randa Abdel-Fattah‘s invocation of free speech and her outrage at being ‘cancelled’,” he wrote.

“They both exhibit hypocrisy in defending free speech for some, when I observed them both to stridently oppose free speech during my time on the Board.”

Mr Berg said that at a board meeting in February 2024, Ms Adler “led a demand to the Board” to rescind an invitation to Mr Friedman to Adelaide Writers Week.

After (New York Times journalist) Tom Friedman was invited to speak, Randa Abdel-Fattah (the writer disinvited from the his year’s AWW, which ultimately triggered its collapse) had led a group of academics demanding that Tom Friedman be deplatformed. Then Louise Adler, Ruth MacKenzie and Kath Mainland put an ultimatum to the Board that they would resign if it did not endorse their recommendation to disinvite Friedman

“I regard it to be utterly hypocritical of Randa Abdel-Fatah and Louise Adler to now accuse the Board of repressing freedom of speech when they have both actively sought to deny it to Tom Friedman. I understand why a number of authors have turned down invitations to come to AWW 2026 on freedom of speech grounds,” he said. “But they should understand that the people, with whom they are standing, in fact, have actively undermined freedom of speech in the past.

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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 89929 Proud Old White Australian Man Gender:	Re: AU Adelaide Writers Week Festival cancelled Reply #35 - Jan 15^th, 2026 at 8:43am That's what happens when you have too many lunatic sheilas running the show....
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Reply #37 - Jan 15^th, 2026 at 9:39pm

Gnads wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 2:47pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:52pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 11:39am:

I would be interested to hear Abdel Fattah's thoughts on the Sydney shootings.

Well... she's suing Malinauskus for associating her with the Bondi massacre.

How did he do that exactly?

And she is not suing - she has sent a notice of defamation.

Long way off suing as yet.

Not far off Wink

Premier Peter Malinauskas should be charged with criminal defamation of Dr Randa Abdel Fattah

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Reply #38 - Jan 15^th, 2026 at 10:36pm

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:54pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:52pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 11:39am:

I would be interested to hear Abdel Fattah's thoughts on the Sydney shootings.

Well... she's suing Malinauskus for associating her with the Bondi massacre.

Which means what? She has good lawyers?

She is a grifter

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Grant

Summary:
Arab/Muslim Australian Social Movements since the 1970s: a hidden history. This project will be the first study of a neglected but constitutive part of Australia’s social movement history: Arab/Muslim Australian social justice activism. It aims to recover previously untapped oral histories and rare archival collections of Arab/Muslim Australian activists working in anti-racism, anti-war and feminist social movements from the 1970s to date.

Funding:
$802,000.00
Investigators:
Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah

https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT220100427

Labor has give her over $1million of taxpayers money to publish her nonsense.

Why are taxpayers funding rubbish like this?

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Reply #39 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 8:30am

Baronvonrort wrote on Jan 15^th, 2026 at 10:36pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:54pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:52pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 11:39am:

I would be interested to hear Abdel Fattah's thoughts on the Sydney shootings.

Well... she's suing Malinauskus for associating her with the Bondi massacre.

Which means what? She has good lawyers?

She is a grifter

Quote:

Grant

Summary:
Arab/Muslim Australian Social Movements since the 1970s: a hidden history. This project will be the first study of a neglected but constitutive part of Australia’s social movement history: Arab/Muslim Australian social justice activism. It aims to recover previously untapped oral histories and rare archival collections of Arab/Muslim Australian activists working in anti-racism, anti-war and feminist social movements from the 1970s to date.

Funding:
$802,000.00
Investigators:
Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah

https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT220100427

Labor has give her over $1million of taxpayers money to publish her nonsense.

Why are taxpayers funding rubbish like this?

She is simply someone who disagrees with you. That's all.

Plenty of museums getting millions in handouts too Wink

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/12/australia-festival-faces-mass-boycott-a...

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Abdel-Fattah, a Macquarie University academic who researches Islamophobia and Palestine, responded saying it was “a blatant and shameless act of anti-Palestinian racism and censorship”. She said the board’s attempt to associate her with the Bondi killings was “despicable”.

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Re: AU Adelaide Writers Week Festival cancelled
Reply #40 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 8:57am

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 3:44pm:

Gnads wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 2:47pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:52pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 11:39am:

I would be interested to hear Abdel Fattah's thoughts on the Sydney shootings.

Well... she's suing Malinauskus for associating her with the Bondi massacre.

How did he do that exactly?

I like Pete.

He was a work associate, and I got along with him extremely well.

Couldn't meet a nicer guy.

However, he should have stayed out of this.

“Can you imagine if a far-right Zionist walked into a Sydney mosque and murdered 15 people?” he said.

“Can you imagine that as the premier of this state, I would actively support a far-right Zionist going to writers’ week and speaking hateful rhetoric towards Islamic people? Of course I wouldn’t, but the reverse has happened in this instance. And I think that’s a reasonable position for me to take, it’s a view that I believe.”

He believes he's made a fair comparison & I agree.

Abdel-Fattah supports terrorist groups & is openly anti- Jewish in her views.

Anyways the Festival Organisers have weakened & invited her to attend in 2027.

I hope she's so pissed off with them she says no ....

that would be another win for commonsense against activists like her.

Seeing she does the same to people she thinks are RW conservatives or Pro-Israeli.

Double standards are her norm.

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Reply #41 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 9:02am

Frank wrote on Jan 15^th, 2026 at 8:14am:

Gnads wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 11:33am:

Frank wrote on Jan 13^th, 2026 at 9:52pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 13^th, 2026 at 7:36pm:

It was on The 7:30 Report on ABC tonight.

I've known Pete for more than 15 years, and he's a really, really decent bloke, but I'm not with him on this one.

He should have kept out of it.

He did, creep.

It was really the festival director, Louise Adler who insisted on including the pro Hamas activist woman in the line up.

The festival board said it would not be “culturally sensitive” to include her voice so soon after the tragedy, citing concerns about community tensions. Abdel-Fattah decried the decision as racism and censorship.
The **cking cheek of her.
In 2024 Abdel Fattah herself called for on the same festival to rescind the invitation of Jewish New York Times columnist.

Yes - it's one of these Islamists biggest faults - hypocrisy.

And Abdel-Fattah is a terrorist supporting anti-Semite/racist herself.

Muslims and lefties meet at that junction: hypocrisy. You cannot be either wighout being a comlkete and utter hypocrite and arse. So they invariably intertwine their hypocrisies.

Former Adelaide Writers Week director Louise Adler has been accused of hypocrisy over free speech after former Adelaide Festival board member and businessman Tony Berg claimed she had in 2024 issued an ultimatum over the cancellation of Jewish Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman.

In a letter sent to The Australian, Mr Berg claimed the direction Ms Adler was taking the festival was the reason he stood down from the board last year.

“I am now utterly astonished at Louise Adler’s statement in her resignation letter in support of free speech. I am likewise surprised by Randa Abdel-Fattah‘s invocation of free speech and her outrage at being ‘cancelled’,” he wrote.

“They both exhibit hypocrisy in defending free speech for some, when I observed them both to stridently oppose free speech during my time on the Board.”

Mr Berg said that at a board meeting in February 2024, Ms Adler “led a demand to the Board” to rescind an invitation to Mr Friedman to Adelaide Writers Week.

After (New York Times journalist) Tom Friedman was invited to speak, Randa Abdel-Fattah (the writer disinvited from the his year’s AWW, which ultimately triggered its collapse) had led a group of academics demanding that Tom Friedman be deplatformed. Then Louise Adler, Ruth MacKenzie and Kath Mainland put an ultimatum to the Board that they would resign if it did not endorse their recommendation to disinvite Friedman

“I regard it to be utterly hypocritical of Randa Abdel-Fatah and Louise Adler to now accuse the Board of repressing freedom of speech when they have both actively sought to deny it to Tom Friedman. I understand why a number of authors have turned down invitations to come to AWW 2026 on freedom of speech grounds,” he said. “But they should understand that the people, with whom they are standing, in fact, have actively undermined freedom of speech in the past.

If Albanese gets his "hate speech" Bill up in Parliament these writers won't have to worry about "free speech" because it will be dead & buried along with their little festival.

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Reply #42 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 9:06am

Sir lastnail wrote on Jan 15^th, 2026 at 9:39pm:

Gnads wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 2:47pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:52pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 11:39am:

I would be interested to hear Abdel Fattah's thoughts on the Sydney shootings.

Well... she's suing Malinauskus for associating her with the Bondi massacre.

How did he do that exactly?

And she is not suing - she has sent a notice of defamation.

Long way off suing as yet.

Not far off Wink

Premier Peter Malinauskas should be charged with criminal defamation of Dr Randa Abdel Fattah

Saying that she has pro-Hamas, anti Israeli views/activism is not defamatory - it's factual.

I hope any action she tries to bring is treated with the contempt it deserves.

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Reply #43 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 9:08am

Abdel-Fattah and her pronouncements should not be celebrated and platformed at a literary event in a respectful society. Her ugly outpourings should be treated just as vile racism and pro-Nazism are. They should be condemned, shunned and avoided.

As Joe Aston wrote in Rampart this week: “And how could anyone consider it mild of Abdel-Fattah to say that her ‘duty’ is ‘to ensure that every space Zionists enter is culturally unsafe for them’. Most Jews are Zionists so Abdel-Fattah considers it her calling to guarantee that only Jews like Adler may live their lives unmolested. This is properly crazy stuff and yet everyone from Richard Flanagan to Zadie Smith to Jacinda Ardern is saying ‘I’m with you, sister!’ ”

For Australia’s leading writers to align with a purported intellectual who publicly advocates that Zionism “deserves no safe cultural space” is not just risible, it’s recklessly dangerous.

I don’t believe for a moment that most of those writers who have quit Adelaide Writers Week want to seriously argue that there are no boundaries to free speech.

But they need to own something now. They have shown Australians still shaken from the slaughter of Jews on our most iconic beach a month ago that they’ll go to the wall to back Randa Abdel-Fattah.

That’s a travesty.

It explains the silence of the yarts when everyone else in Australia was calling for a royal commission.

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Reply #44 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 9:13am

Sir lastnail wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 8:30am:

Baronvonrort wrote on Jan 15^th, 2026 at 10:36pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:54pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:52pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 11:39am:

I would be interested to hear Abdel Fattah's thoughts on the Sydney shootings.

Well... she's suing Malinauskus for associating her with the Bondi massacre.

Which means what? She has good lawyers?

She is a grifter

Quote:

Grant

Summary:
Arab/Muslim Australian Social Movements since the 1970s: a hidden history. This project will be the first study of a neglected but constitutive part of Australia’s social movement history: Arab/Muslim Australian social justice activism. It aims to recover previously untapped oral histories and rare archival collections of Arab/Muslim Australian activists working in anti-racism, anti-war and feminist social movements from the 1970s to date.

Funding:
$802,000.00
Investigators:
Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah

https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT220100427

Labor has give her over $1million of taxpayers money to publish her nonsense.

Why are taxpayers funding rubbish like this?

She is simply someone who disagrees with you. That's all.

Plenty of museums getting millions in handouts too Wink

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/12/australia-festival-faces-mass-boycott-a...

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Abdel-Fattah, a Macquarie University academic who researches Islamophobia and Palestine, responded saying it was “a blatant and shameless act of anti-Palestinian racism and censorship”. She said the board’s attempt to associate her with the Bondi killings was “despicable”.

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Abdel-Fattah, a Macquarie University academic who researches Islamophobia and Palestine,

Nearly $1 million dollars to research a country that does not exist & a made up fictional word.

No one associated the biatch with the Bondi shootings ....

they intimated that if she voiced her views at the festival it would be culturally insensitive because of how recent the Bondi shootings were......

you know like it would be ....... too soon.

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