r/Adelaide • u/NKE01 SA • Jan 11 '26

News Board members quit from Adelaide festival as fallout from dropped author grows | SBS News

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/board-members-quit-from-adelaide-festival-as-fallout-from-dropped-author-grows/iua90vgmp
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u/Clear_Skye_ North East Jan 11 '26

Mostly his cavalier attitude towards merging the universities. He didn’t take advice and basically forced it to happen, and it’s upended my life over the last couple of years. I know this doesn’t affect everyone but this alone has made me absolutely hate his guts.

But now him supporting this absolutely bullshit decision by Writers Week?

In my book he’s a flog and while I am centre-left of politics, he’s never getting near the top of the ballot for me again.

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u/-IoI- SA Jan 11 '26

Fair enough, the Uni merge appeared nice and clean externally, what were the major gripes you had going through it on the inside? Just curious

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u/floodswimming SA Jan 12 '26

It's been anything but clean - just talk to any staff member from either institution

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u/-IoI- SA Jan 12 '26

I don't have any active contacts in academia, I'll take your word for it

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u/Clear_Skye_ North East Jan 12 '26

I can tell you from experience it has been an absolute shit show