Censorship
Dubai influencers warned they face jail over war posts
With some of the harshest cybercrime laws in the world, in the UAE any commentary about regional conflict or security can be a criminal offence.
- Patrick Sawer and Alice Lilley
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Adelaide was to be my first big writers’ festival. Then it all went wrong
The cancellation of the festival was a blow for established writers. But for debut authors like me, it was a nightmare.
- Olivia De Zilva
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It’s a good thing Shakespeare wasn’t invited to Adelaide Writers’ Week
The writers’ festival had to be destroyed to save it. In the future, arts boards will stick to safe programming. But will those events be worth attending?
- Malcolm Knox
Social media posts could fall foul of new hate speech laws
Experts argue the omnibus bill goes well beyond what is required to respond to the atrocities at Bondi.
- Rob Harris
- Opinion
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Politicians shouldn’t decide who appears at writers’ festivals. It’s a dangerous path
Australia’s best writers festival could collapse within days as international and local writers boycott it in protest at the removal of Randa Abdel-Fattah.
- Richard Flanagan
Fox News joins mass rebellion over Pentagon’s ‘unprecedented’ new rules
The conservative network has joined a throng of US media outlets refusing to agree to a new set of rules for reporters covering the Pentagon.
- Michael Koziol
South Park mocks Trump’s FCC chairman in first episode since Kirk shooting
The biting animated satire lampooned the man whose perceived government overreach is at the centre of the political storm triggered by Disney yanking Jimmy Kimmel off-air for a week.
- Michael Idato
A bold exploration of media censorship around the Israel-Palestine conflict
Randa Abdel-Fattah, who withdrew from the Bendigo Writers Festival, tackles the very issue she faced in her novel set in the world of mainstream media and academia.
- Sarah Ayoub
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- Trump's America
‘Ill-timed, insensitive’: Kimmel back on air after backlash over Charlie Kirk comments
American television network ABC will reinstate the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show after it was suspended over his on-air comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
- Dawn Chmielewski
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Reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death highlights hypocrisy of the left
After years of weaponising hate speech laws to censor right-wing opinion, it’s too late now for the left to complain when their ideological enemies return the favour.
- George Brandis