Protester Ollie Doyle on why he is speaking out at Bendigo Writers Festival

Protester Ollie Doyle speaks to the Bendigo Advertiser on why he is speaking out at Bendigo Writers Festival, as writers boycott.

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00:00Yeah, so we've come down today to stand for free speech, for people being able to talk

00:05about Palestine openly, to talk about the genocide that's happening over there.

00:10We think it's abhorrent that writers are being censored, that people aren't allowed to just

00:16speak in what's meant to be a free speech country, and we want to see discussion about

00:21this and we want to push action from the government to sanction Israel and stop this genocide

00:26now.

00:27Yeah, so we've come down today to stand for free speech, for people being able to talk

00:34about Palestine openly, to talk about the genocide that's happening over there.

00:38We think it's abhorrent that writers are being censored.