Premier Peter Malinauskas has set off on a media blitz to educate South Australians on laws prohibiting the state’s Premier from directing the Adelaide Festival board on creative or artistic matters.
The Premier’s media blitz comes after an author, who was set to speak on the censorship of Palestinian writers, was dumped from Adelaide Writers’ Week in a narrative device that most writers would dismiss as “too ironic to be believable”. Thankfully, the decision to remove the writer from the bill avoided any division that her presence may have caused.
Speaking to Adelaide Mail, the Premier’s Media Advisor and Seafood Recipe Finder Tiggy Drayflounder said that the Premier’s actions definitely did not amount to directing the Festival Board.
“Just because the Premier privately stated to the board that he didn’t want Abdel-Fattah at Writers’ Week, and then also wrote a letter to the board saying that he didn’t Abdel-Fattah at Writers’ Week doesn’t mean that he was directing the board to remove Abdel-Fattah from Writers’ Week. Have you seen him kick a footy?”
We had seen him kick a footy.
“Do you really think that our Premier, who brought Katy Perry to our great state mind you, would concern himself with the worrying about the lineup for a writers’ festival? No way, he’s busy planning an exclusive appearance at the 12th hole at The Grange and organising to ship Cosi off to Ukraine.”
In fairness, we do thank him for the latter.
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