Jack Toohey

Jack Toohey

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This is the [slightly trimmed] closing address I gave at Sydney Writers’ Festival 2026 last weekend (⊙_⊙)

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Jack Toohey
May 31, 2026
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I could feel something in my mouth, an uncomfortable taste. It started to make me cough and splutter. Some sort of gas or spray had been let off into the crowd, and panic began to set in at the Herzog rally at Town Hall Square.

They call it a square, but it really only has three sides you can leave from. Police had lined up shoulder to shoulder along Geo…

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