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Deborah Henderson

This Month

The Sydney Writer’s Festival should primarily be “about inspiring curiosity, a love of reading and an exchange of ideas” but it has increasingly been pressured by some directors and staff keen to emphasise “polarising topics”.

Festival politicking shows why donors are walking away from the arts

The politicisation of philanthropy has led to artists and organisers engaging in their own ideological frolics using other people’s money.

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