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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Kelly Burke

EXPLAINED: Gareth evans scolds bone headed meanjin publisher as imminent closure sparks protest | Rare Historical Photos

Former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans  in 2018.
In an email to MUP about the closure of Meanjin, Gareth Evans wrote: ‘I only hope some philanthropist with deep pockets, and a sense of decency and national pride, steps up to keep the journal going’. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

The former Labor attorney general and foreign affairs minister Gareth Evans has sent a scathing email to the chief executive of Melbourne University Publishing, lambasting its decision to scrap the literary journal Meanjin as “bone-headed”.

Several hundred protesters gathered outside MUP’s Swanston Street headquarters in Melbourne on Thursday protesting against the imminent closure of one of the cornerstones of Australian literary culture for 85 years.

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