by Blick | Mar 18, 2023 | News
Louise Milligan – Picture credit: Simon Schluter Writing and publishing a book about a controversial public figure is like diving into shark-infested waters ABC investigative journalist Louise Milligan said at the recent Adelaide Writers’ Week. She wondered if...
by Blick | Mar 18, 2023 | News
A Tibetan writer arrested by Chinese police nearly three years ago has been confirmed to be serving four years in prison for “splittism and spreading rumours in internet chat groups,” reports Lobe Socktsang for Radio Free Asia. Zangkar Jamyang, now 45, disappeared on...
by Blick | Mar 14, 2023 | News
It was just over 20 years ago that I walked through the front doors to do an arts and law degree. I was 18, a bookish and shy young Muslim woman from a western Sydney public school. I was exhilarated and so excited by the life I wanted at a big city university like...
by Blick | Mar 8, 2023 | News
Congratulations to the translators shortlisted in this year’s NSW Premier’s Translation Prize. The prize was proposed by PEN Sydney and is funded by Multicultural NSW, with a trophy sponsored by PEN Sydney. The prize is intended to acknowledge the contribution...
by Blick | Mar 8, 2023 | News
Inspired by the Russell-Sartre Tribunals of the Vietnam War, the Belmarsh Tribunal convened in Sydney University’s Great Hall on March 4, for a full-house event co-chaired by legal and media identities Mark Davis and Mary Kostakidis. Mr Assange has now been...