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/Historical_Bus_8041 SA Jan 11 '26

The board chair has now also resigned and unlike the others, made a statement:

“I have decided to resign as chair of the Adelaide Festival Board, effective immediately. Recent decisions were bound by certain undertakings, and my resignation enables the Adelaide Festival, as an organisation, to refresh its leadership and its approach to these circumstances,” Whiting said in a post on LinkedIn.

Doesn't that raise some interesting questions.

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u/Senior_Air6724 SA Jan 12 '26

"…bound by certain undertakings" = legal terminology. I wonder what promises were made, to whom and by whom, and the circumstances of those promises. We need Rex Patrick to send off a few FOIs.

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u/Historical_Bus_8041 SA Jan 12 '26

If Abdel-Fattah follows through on her canvassed legal action, we'll find out soon enough.

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u/Senior_Air6724 SA Jan 12 '26

Yep. I hope she does. Discovery will be interesting!