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Pro-Israel groups have attacked me for years. The Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning point. Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby

Randa Abdel-Fattah details life as a target of the pro-Israel lobby and those who capitulate to it, in an op-ed commissioned by The Age and then rejected

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Pro-Israel group lobbied La Trobe and Bendigo Writers Festival over Palestinian academic's institution A leaked letter reveals pressure from a pro-Israel group in the lead up to the Festival

Well there you go. Bendigo Writers Festival has been absolutely played, forced to do the dirty work of lobbyists by their sponsor. When these threats come knocking, academic institutions should be doing everything to protect and defend this country’s cultural events, not become Israel’s enforcer.

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she's like the wind blowing back into town

in which I combine patrick swayze and charmian clift

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This is Amnesty International, the most reputable human rights group in the world. No one can say they didn’t know.

bearing a bowl of book 🤗

I've started this awesome new project with @johannawiggers.bsky.social ! if you're a HDR or ECR and super into longform literary criticism you should consider pitching!

oh I'd love to take these if you still have them? We're well overdue a lunch anyway :)

Hahaha I don’t doubt that.

@iansyson.bsky.social g'day!

I am often accused of being too emotional when reporting on politics - but I would rather have a human emotional response than pretend this is just 'reshaping US policy in the Middle East'. It's ethnic cleansing and the end of the rule of law. And the Australian government has said nothing

Like clockwork!

Amy is the GOAT

Why are we “Czar”ing all the time?!! 😭

Illustration of a seance in progress, the ghost of Shakespeare being summoned

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I’m here and with you x

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She wrote a book!! On bravery!! Talk about “practicing what you preach “!! Wouldn’t it be a nice gesture of thanks to buy her book? Get her on the bestseller list? And lessons on bravery could serve us well right now 😊

I am SO ready to hermit

Stacey's Choice I actually still don't even know what Sophie's Choice was about

Please help me choose my last book of the summer holidays

Postgraduate Research Scholarship in World Literature and/or Australian Literature A scholarship to support Masters by Research or PhD student who is undertaking research in world literature and/or Australian literature

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Trump hasn't even taken office yet and it's already exhausting.

i also listened to it on audiobook, which I think helped?

because it was utter posh nonsense. I don't know why it appealed so much but I thought it was hysterical. maybe I was simply in the mood for something so outrageously old-fashioned. my version of mindless entertaining trash I suppose, I can't really put my finger on it

MAGA wants to bring back impossible divorce, mandated pregnancies, and no separate bank accounts so the ladies finna bring back arsenic, young widowhood and collecting pensions/insurance for 40+ years.

If we goin back to the 1950s WE ALL GOIN ALL THE WAY BACK.

surprisingly, I've enjoyed A Murder of Quality the most so far

I’ve started reading Smiley from the start and it’s been a delight. I’m up to The Looking Glass War. Can recommend such a course of action ✔️

I have to read this now that I’ve come across it, yes?

Now I want eggs

this is genuinely all i care about