Sydney Writers’ Festival is celebrating its best year ever, while Adelaide Writers' Week is reeling from its worst. There's one critical difference.

NSW Police and its watchdog have closed ranks over "secrecy notices" issued by the Police Commissioner over Sydney's anti-Herzog protest.

Almost three months after Sydney’s Town Hall anti-Herzog rally, where police were filmed punching and attacking attendees, not one officer has faced any action.

The NSW Government’s highly-controversial anti-protest law has been struck down as unconstitutional by the state’s highest court, in a major blow to the ALP Minns Government.

Writer Randa Abdel-Fattah was cancelled from Adelaide Writers’ Week because of intervention by Premier Peter Malinauskas, explosive board documents reveal.

The right to protest is under attack, raising serious concerns about freedom of speech – and the functioning of Australia's democracy.