Report: Palestinian-Australian author sends formal defamation notice to the South Australian premier.

Adelaide Writers’ Week had excluded Randa Abdel-Fattah on no other grounds than for being Palestinian after the Bondi massacre.

In solidarity with Abdel-Fattah, 100s of authors pulled out of the festival, & the festival collapsed.

middleeastmonitor.com/20260114

@palestinePalestine_Group .

For the past week since | was cancelled by the
Adelaide Festival Board, the South Premier Peter
Malinauskas has made many public statements
about me and my character. We have never met
and he has never attempted to contact me. He
knows nothing about me, beyond what he has been
told by the Murdoch press and the pro-Israel lobby,
which he has apparently accepted without
question.

Yesterday Mr Malinauskas went even further. He
made a public statement that suggested | am an
extremist terrorist sympathiser and directly linked
me to the Bondi atrocity. This was a vicious
personal assault on me, a private citizen, by the
highest public official in South Australia. It was
defamatory and it terrified me.

Enough is enough. | am a human being, not a
10:11 AM - Jan 14, 2026 ®
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