My response to 'journalist' Noah Yim
Sarah Henderson, The 'Australian' and Pull it Down.
On 5 November, my most recent picture book Pull it Down was discussed in Australian Senate estimates. Sarah Henderson (a Victorian senator, shadow education minister and obsequious Zionist sycophant) interrogated Adrian Collette, CEO of Creative Australia.
Henderson attempted (unsuccessfully) to to tie Creative Australia funding to Pull it Down.1
In fact, the $42,452 in question, peer assessed by Creative Australia’s Literature panel, was awarded to my friend and collaborator Amy McQuire and I for an entirely different picture book project. Amusingly, Sarah Henderson is going to hate that book even more; its historical accuracy will surely enrage her.
Sarah, keep your eyes out for our 2025 release!
So, did Henderson really need to spend time in Parliament asking Collette to copy and paste some publicly available information for her? Information gathering, of course, was never the point. Henderson’s task was only to provide red meat for her pro-genocide handlers and constituents.
If you are a threat to imperialism, you will be targeted. This fact is an affirmation: if you are being targeted, you are being effective.
The $42,452 Creative Australia grant has now been the subject of a 14-month Zionist lobby tantrum, via multiple articles by obedient non-journalists at The Australian.
Predictably, The Australian reached out this week with yet another pre-hit piece email, using the transcript of Henderson’s misguided Senate interrogation as another excuse to re-litigate the funding.
Here’s my response to that email from ‘journalist’ Noah Yim:
‘Well, he’s released a book, Pull it Down ... which is deeply offensive, deeply anti-Australian. Alex Dimitriades [sic] and John Ferguson of the Australian have said, ‘the face of a hideous hatred that has no place in this country’. This is all about a picture book where children are basically encouraged to laugh with statues being chopped off ... I’m deeply concerned that there are many decisions being made which are improperly funding people in this country who are supporting improper behaviour, anti-Australian hatred.’
—SARAH HENDERSON to Senate estimates