Below grade ore not fit to mined ...
Are writers weeks like Adelaide now pointless?
Why Adelaide Writers Week and others are in danger of extinction
Distinguished South Australian writer Stephen Orr argues Adelaide Writers Week has transformed from an exciting literary discovery into tedious ideological battlegrounds that have lost their original purpose.
By Stephen Orr
How desperate, pathetic, needy and unseemly it is to join up late to a lizard Oz jihad?
Wondering who this Ore is, desperate to step into the limelight and join the current lizard Oz jihad? The reptiles provided this thumb ...
Stephen Orr is a writer based in South Australia. His first book was shortlisted for The Australian’s Vogel prize; he has also been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Miles Franklin Award and the International Dublin Literary Award. His new novel, The Night Parrots (Wakefield Press), is due in May 2026. Set in Hermannsburg Mission in 1922, it tells the story of fifty-year-old Pastor Martin Gerlach, his wife Alma and their fourteen-year-old son Benno.
More to the point:
So what now? Are we condemned to an eternity of intercol football, mega-utes and shiny new petrol stations? Endless photo ops for the Suits? The unholy communion of politics and populist media. Writers braying in the lizard Oz while narcissistically seeking attention? (Or some such, the pond might have added that last line).
Good on her ...
Sorry certainly seems to be the hardest word for the award-winning Cathy Wilcox … expletives on the other hand? Not so much.
By Steve Jackson
Was it just another excuse to run the 'toon, which allegedly was extremely offensive and insulting and should never again see the light of day?
Tell us, jerk off Jacko ...
It was, it was ... look what the reptiles trotted out ...allegedly the shame that should never be seen again ...
Just like Bill Leak and his lesser spawn, you braying jack ass Jacko?
And good news via Mumbrella ..
Here's a suggestion. Stop pretending to be a faux leftie while running with the reptiles, and instead do something useful with what's left of your life ...
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