Premier Peter Malinauskas has publicly supported the festival board’s authority to make programming decisions, asserting the need to balance cultural safety with artistic freedom
HAF described the advertisement as “racist, un-American, anti-Indian profiling/trolling” by a federal agency and said it should “shock our nation’s collective conscience”.
Patel’s death has left his family, friends and colleagues facing the loss of a man whose final journey home was meant to be an ordinary part of his day.
