My first ‘and another thing’ vlog for the year is inspired by the Adelaide Festival and the need to talk about Ministerially-appointed boards.
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Part 2:
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This episode draws from or references:
- Adelaide Writers Week in disarray as almost 100 writers boycott over Board’s ‘censorship’ of Randa Abdel-Fattah by Richard Watts in ArtsHub
- ‘Masterclass in poor governance’: what was the board’s role in the end of Adelaide Writers Week? By Kim Goodwin in The Conversation
- Arts boards in crisis: how have we landed here, yet again? by Jo Pickup in ArtsHub
- And Another Thing: Should board members get paid?
- And another thing: from censorship to systemic change
- Resources on Palestine as a governance issue
Further reading: Palestine as a governance issue
You can check out all of the articles and resources in this series, which include:
- And Another Thing: issues with appointed boards, January 2026
- Writers festival reflections, October 2025
- Take on Board podcast on the ethics of AI, August 2025
- Why we cancelled our Bendigo Writers Festival panel, August 2025
- And Another Thing: from censorship to systemic change, June 2025
- And Another Thing: receiving and responding to harm, March 2025
- Contextually fine, October 2024
- And another thing: board solidarity, October 2024
- The statements we make, August 2024
- And another thing: SLV as the example you don’t want to be, August 2024
- And another thing: organisational ethics and deficit areas, July 2024
- And another thing: on cultural safety, May 2024
- Take on Board podcast on Palestine as a governance issue, May 2024
- Palestine governance resources in The Commons, April 2024
- The power of digital poetry, March 2024
- Dear arts organisations, January 2024
- Board members, we need to talk about Palestine, December 2023
- Ally is a verb, October 2023
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