2026 • Jan 27
Heat records tumble in Victoria as authorities warn against complacency amid significant blazes
BoM to check if Walpeup and Hopetoun broke state’s official heat record - set during 2009’s Black Saturday
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2026 • Jan 11
Adelaide festival did not dump Jewish columnist from 2024 program despite request from Randa Abdel-Fattah and others
Palestinian academic rejects accusations of hypocrisy, saying board resisted attempts to remove Thomas Friedman, while cancelling her invitation this year
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2026 • Jan 11
Three board members resign from Adelaide festival as Randa Abdel-Fattah sends legal notice
Resignations follow withdrawal of more than 70 participants in writers’ week after Palestinian Australian author disinvitedGet our
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2026 • Jan 10
SA premier denies pressuring Adelaide festival to drop Randa Abdel-Fattah
Letter from 11 South Australian cultural leaders labels cancellation of Palestinian-Australian’s participation a ‘grave mistake’ which brought festival into disrepute
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2026 • Jan 09
Almost 50 writers boycott Adelaide festival after it dumps pro-Palestine academic Randa Abdel-Fattah
Helen Garner and Miles Franklin winner Michelle de Kretser among 47 people who have pulled out of annual writers’ festival to protest Abdel-Fattah’s axing
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2026 • Jan 08
Adelaide festival dumps prominent academic Randa Abdel-Fattah over ‘cultural sensitivity’ concerns after Bondi attack
Abdel-Fattah accuses the board of ‘blatant and shameless’ anti-Palestinian racism and censorship, as other authors pull out in solidarity
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2025 • Dec 11
Sexually explicit letters about exiled Hong Kong activists sent to UK and Australian addresses
Exclusive: Letters with deepfake images of Carmen Lau in UK and targeting of Ted Hui in Australia part of growing harassmentSexually explicit letters and “lonely housewife” posters about hig...
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2025 • Dec 10
A vision splendid or eyesore? South Australian court to rule on ‘Blue Blob’ sculpture vandalism charge
If Amelia Vanderhorst is found guilty and penalised for allegedly sticking googly eyes on Mount Gambier landmark, it might be the first time such an act has been punishedOn Mount Gambier’s B...
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2025 • Aug 13
Labor to use black summer-era measure to fast
Murray Watt and Sussan Ley survey devastation in Adelaide as scientists call for urgent funding for affected species
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