It's been a month since the Adelaide Festival Board announced it had removed Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from the line-up of 2026 Writers Week, triggering a chain reaction that ultimately led to the board's resignation and the cancellation of this year's event. This week, organisers of a one-off alternative festival created in response to the cancellation announced Abdel-Fattah as part of the line-up. As the Adelaide Festival now looks to put the controversy in its past, executive director Julian Hobba sat down with Kathryn Bermingham for this Stateline interview.
