by PenSydney | Jun 16, 2025 | News
When Sri Lanka’s Parliament hurried the Online Safety Act (OSA) through committee and certified it on 1 February 2024, ministers hailed the statute as a firewall against cyber-fraud, child exploitation, and “false statements.” Yet to many journalists, lawyers and...
by PenSydney | May 31, 2025 | News
A letter written in January this year by imprisoned Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been made public for the first time. Now in his sixth year of unjust detention in China Yang Hengjun’s health has deteriorated rapidly. In defiance of the looming suspended death...
by PenSydney | May 31, 2025 | News
Students in NSW schools are watching a genocide in Gaza unfold on their phones, yet their teachers are banned from discussing the story with them. Celebrating students’ cultural backgrounds is encouraged, except if you’re Palestinian. Chris Breen...
by PenSydney | May 24, 2025 | News
We live in an era of unprecedented access to information, yet power and authority often present fiction as fact. As a writer and lawyer, Shankari Chandran recognises fiction’s limitations in delivering justice. But her interviews with survivors of Sri Lankan genocide...
by PenSydney | Mar 1, 2025 | News
Twitter is toxic, Threads is irrelevant – the world is moving to Bluesky and we’re joining them. Follow us @pensydney PEN Sydney has decided to join the rest of the PEN community by joining Bluesky. Follow us @pensydney for all the news you need about...
by PenSydney | Mar 1, 2025 | News
Creative Australia’s withdrawal of its selection of the artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino for the Venice Biennale is censorship. PEN Sydney has joined more than 4000 from the arts community in signing an open letter calling on Creative...
