It seems that in 2024, in Australia and elsewhere, the interplay between the current funding models, and the gatekeepers of cultural institutions and festivals versus democratic freedom of artistic expression has come to a head.

Speaking as a media worker guided by universal human rights, integrity and truth, the complicity of the fourth estate in its reporting about Palestine is unacceptable, and is what has ultimately directed my career away from media organisations and into media advocacy and the independent documentary and arts sectors.