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A day of Adelaide Festival’s contemporary music program has been abandoned by artists in the wake of the board’s decision to remove a Palestinian author from the Writers’ Week lineup. SA faces millions of dollars of lost economic benefit if the festival collapses.

Premier Peter Malinauskas today assured the Adelaide Festival board was still functional despite four board members – including the chair – resigning over the Writers’ Week lineup controversy. The Greens warned the event was “not the Premier’s book club”.

Tennis writer Richard Evans chats one-on-one with Adelaide’s own tennis ace Thanasi Kokkinakis about his crowd-pulling first match tonight – and what “looks like a shark bite” beneath his right shoulder.

A US-based group says at least 490 demonstrators have been killed in the mass protests in Iran and more than 10,000 people have been detained.