The Adelaide festival is facing an unprecedented leadership crisis after three board members resigned this weekend. The journalist Daniela Ritorto, the Adelaide businesswoman Donny Walford and the lawyer Nick Linke have stepped down since the board’s controversial decision to dump the Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from the 2026 writers’ week program. The sudden departures follow the withdrawal of more than 70 participants of next month’s festival events. It remains unclear how the board will be able to reach a quorum, potentially paralysing its legal authority to make decisions for the 2026 event. Under the Adelaide Festival Corporation Act 1998
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