Queensland Literary Awards delayed after judge exodus sparked by minister’s intervention
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Queensland’s literary awards, the great cultural event, at the beginning of the year, a separate first nations scholarship torpedo after the intervention of the ministry after losing more than one third of the judges after the delays.
The awards supported by the State Government through Arts Queensland and the State Library, the same week, the library chief Vicki McDonald, the record judge Exodus, shared the details of the short -listed entries on August 5.
In August, Art Minister John-Paul Langbroek said in August, if people “if they choose to be a judge again, we will find other judges”.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer
Since then, no updates have been shared by the prizes or the library that has managed them. The website has recorded dates, including a planned announcement of winners on September 12th, but now only short lists will be “announced soon”.
Art Minister John-Paul Langbroek confirmed the winners on Saturday and confirmed that more than $ 200,000 in 11 categories will be announced on September 26th.
Why important
In May, Langbroek expressed his concerns with the library leaders twice before intervening Stop a scholarship to Adelaide -based writer Ken Wyld, which he accused of “glorify terrorism ında in parliament.
Since then, a deleted social media post, the decision praising the massacred Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was welcomed by the state’s most intense Jewish organ. National debate About anti -Semitism and speech about Israel’s claim to genocide in Gaza.
The four literary prizes announced that they would then resign to protest the intervention. McDonald approved at the parliamentary hearing on August 7 12 out of 34 judges after all quitHowever, I did not mention the short list date that has already been missed.
