ArtsHub: Bendigo Writers Festival 2025: why we cancelled our panelA festival spokesperson told the ABC 11 sessions had been cancelled. She continues:At a time when journalists are being permanently silenced by Israel’s genocidal forces, it is incomprehensible that a writers’ festival should also seek to silence Palestinian voices. Whatever the relative merits of the two documents, the Universities Australia definition is the one in question at Bendigo. Since its outbreak in October 2023, they have engulfed Sydney Writers Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, the Perth Festival’s Writers’ Weekend, the Sydney Opera House’s All About Women, and Adelaide Writers Week. This followed the resignation of the deputy chair of the Melbourne Writers Festival board earlier in 2024, over a similar conflict.