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Bendigo Writers Festival Faced A Mass Walkout Over Its Code Of Conduct, Here’s What Happened

Bendigo Writers Festival was meant to kick off this month. Instead, it found itself at the centre of mass withdrawals.

How the Bendigo writers’ festival’s code of conduct caused a walkout and claims of censorship

How the Bendigo writers’ festival’s code of conduct caused a walkout and claims of censorship

The last-minute code of conduct and the backlash are the latest in a string of controversies ‘symptomatic of the current environment’ in the arts

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Bendigo Writers Festival has questions to answer over ‘untenable’ code of conduct for authors

Bendigo Writers Festival has questions to answer over ‘untenable’ code of conduct for authors

Around 20 writers, including prominent Palestine advocate Randa Abdel-Fattah and Stella Prize winners Evelyn Araluen, Clare Wright and Jess Hill, have reportedly withdrawn from Bendigo Writers Festival, which opens today.

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Writers’ festival requires ‘complete self-censorship’ over Gaza war, academic claims, as speakers withdraw in protest

Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah among those to boycott Bendigo writers’ festival, arguing she cannot appear ‘as a Palestinian’ due to speaker code

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When I was an undergraduate, student life was on campus. A lot is being lost in the shift to online learning

A talking head on a screen is not the same as a flesh and blood person standing in front of you

The Guardian - AU

Major Australian university launches 'AI first' policy

University students will be encouraged to use artificial intelligence programs to complete assignments and research projects under a bold policy change.

Reproductive coercion is a form of gender-based violence. It’s likely more common than we realise

From contraception access to safe abortion, there is growing awareness about reproductive health and rights.

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Push to rename La Trobe University due to namesake’s links to ‘genocidal violence’

Push to rename La Trobe University due to namesake’s links to ‘genocidal violence’

Submission to Victoria’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry calls for university to cut ties over first governor’s role in colonisation

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Job threat for Australian university staff as claims international student cuts are being weaponised

Job threat for Australian university staff as claims international student cuts are being weaponised

Leading experts have described Labor’s controversial migration policy as a ‘recipe for chaos’ set to hit campuses

The Guardian - AU

Universities step up action in push to end encampments

Universities step up action in push to end encampments

A Melbourne university started misconduct proceedings against students at a Pro-Palestine encampment, but a Sydney facility won't force the camp to disband.

Study shows why some have low breast milk supply

Study shows why some have low breast milk supply

Unchanging breasts during pregnancy and high body mass indexes during puberty are linked with low breast milk supply, researchers say.

Study reveals social cost of abolishing early closing

Study reveals social cost of abolishing early closing

A study undertaken by La Trobe and Melbourne universities measures the impacts of early closing times on drunkenness, liver disease and death by injury.

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