The power of big money, heavy-weight political figures, domestic and foreign groups all of which wish to dictate the shape, content and breath of public dicsourse are running amuck in our society — they might as well burn our books, incarcerate our intelectuals and install full State Cencorship.
Any amount of coersion these groups successfully apply is Too Much for any vibrant and thriving society to abide, let alone for its creative members. In the repression of artitistic expression, we should clearly recognise — as history teaches us — the decline of a society and its ultimate collapse if such repression is left unchecked. That’s a canary in the coal mine.
It is time to defy, resist, and take the fight to those oppressive forces before, as in the US, it is too late…
Censorship is a certain conduit to radicalisation, the very scourge our govts fear. A scourge we should all fear…
#auspol #LiberateTheArts #Antifa #NoCensorship #CreativeArts #WrittingCommunity
jennifer mills (@[email protected])
Spoke with ABC Arts for this great article on freedom of expression and writers festivals https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-15/adelaide-writers-week-cancelled-literary-festivals-in-crisis/106229240 @asauthors.bsky.social


