Adelaide writers’ week sacrificed to save city’s prestigious arts festival, documents show

Briefings obtained by freedom of information warned a ‘cascade of withdrawals’ could lead to collapse of 2026 South Australian festival Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Adelaide writers’ week was sacrificed to save the 2026 Adelaide festival, an event that ploughs more than $60m into South Australia’s economy each year, documents show. After the 8 January announcement by the Adelaide festival board that controversial Palestinian Australian academic Randa Abdel-Fat...

By Kelly Burke