Skip to main content

The Line Keeps Moving

Session 16
Special Event Talks
Riverbank 2 + 3, Adelaide Convention Centre
Wow afc web session 16 2560x1280 v2 1
1 date

Dates

  • Times

    • Sunday
      2:30 pm — 3:30 pm

Accessibility


Prices

Admission

FREE

One moment you're in the program, the next, you're the problem. In Australia, artists and writers are increasingly navigating unwritten rules and shifting red lines. We unpack how cultural institutions, media outrage and political pressure shape who gets silenced and who gets platformed.


Accessibility
Age Suitability
Runtime

Part of

Beverley Jason Sami on Stage

A vibrant celebration of Asian and Asian Australian literature, writing, and ideas. Discover, engage, inspire. 7-9 November '25.

Discover OzAsia Festival's Weekend of Words


Speakers

Osman Farqui

Speaker

Naarm (Melbourne), Australia

Osman Faruqi is an award-winning journalist, writer and editor. Osman is the co-founder and host of Lamestream Media, and a former editor at The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, and the ABC.

Appearing in: Fake News / Real Journalism, I Get My News from TikTok and The Line Keeps Moving

Osman Farqui

Eugenia Flynn

Speaker

Boon Wurrung Country (Melbourne), Australia

Eugenia Flynn is a Chinese Malaysian, Larrakia, Tiwi and Muslim writer, creative and researcher. Her essays, short stories, poems and textual works have been published and exhibited widely. Her creative practice explores narratives of truth, grief and devastation, interwoven with explorations of race and gender.

Appearing in: Speaking in Tongues, Art Will Save Us and The Line Keeps Moving

Eugenia Flynn

Jan Fran

Speaker

Eora Nations (Sydney), Australia

Jan Fran is a multifaceted media personality and founder of Ette Media. She is a Walkley Award-winning journalist, television presenter and social commentator. Her international experience includes shooting and producing documentaries in countries such as Lebanon, France, Bangladesh and Uganda, and she is fluent in three languages.

Appearing in: I Get My News from TikTok and The Line Keeps Moving

Jan Fran

Smriti Daniel

Moderator

Tarntanya (Adelaide), Australia

Smriti Daniel is an award-winning journalist whose longform features have appeared in 20+ publications across the US, UK, India, Sri Lanka and Australia. She writes at the intersection of science, culture, and environment, blending narrative depth with journalistic rigour.

Appearing in: Fake News / Real Journalism and The Line Keeps Moving

Smriti Daniel

Performance Location: Riverbank 2 + 3, Adelaide Convention Centre

Convention centre

No results were found

Sub­scribe to our newsletter

Choose your interests and get the latest news straight to your mailbox.

Getting here
Adelaide Festival Centre Her Majesty's Theatre
North TceHindley StCurrie StWaymouth StFranklin StGrote StGouger StWright StSturt StGilbert StSouth TceRundle MallKing William RdFestival DrKing William StWest TceMorphett StMontefiore RdPultney StBank StLeigh StKintore AveGawler PlGrenfell StPirie StFlinders StWakefield StAngas StCarrington StHalifax StGilles StPitt St