Lawyers on behalf of Randa Abdel-Fattah have threatened legal action against South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas over remarks he made about the Palestinian author’s participation in the country’s largest free literary festival.
The uproar began when the board of the Adelaide Festival, which runs the Adelaide Writers Week, announced on 8 January they disinvited Ms Abdel-Fattah from the programme. The board argued that “it would not be culturally sensitive to continue to programme her at this unprecedented time so soon after Bondi”.
