Mell Chun was appointed audio editor of The Sunday Paper in 2021, and produced readings of the articles that appeared in Issue One (2021) and Issue Two (2022).

In 2024, Mell has continued her work with The Sunday Paper and expanded the audio into a weekly podcast. The Sunday Paper Podcast features audio articles, interviews and more. It aims to expand the conversation beyond each issue of The Paper.

The Sunday Paper was born during the popular uprisings of May 2021 as an art project and an act of protest. Specifically, it was created to oppose Zionist-owned Schwartz Media, a company that has for years monopolised progressive arts and media, weaponising its power and influence to suffocate criticism of the Zionist entity.

The colonial agenda of Schwartz Media and other Australian Zionist organisations, highlighted through The Sunday Paper, has now become more widely exposed and popularly critiqued.

At the same time, we must now acknowledge a more pervasive and less visible form of silencing. While outwardly supportive of Palestinian rights, and perhaps even self-described as radically anticolonial, many progressive publishers, platforms, and organisations will quietly erase words like 'martyr' or 'intifada, and will quickly withdraw their support at the mention of armed liberation struggle. In doing so, they police the terms of resistance and determine the limits of our analysis.

It was through conversations about this shortfall that, in April 2023, The Sunday Paper was brought out of hiatus with a renewed editorial team. While the moral imperative of resistance should now require no introduction or explanation, it is important to note that this new editorial direction came before the events of October 2023.

Just as colonisation and occupation are violent, the overthrowing of oppression also entails violence. We know this to be true through observing revolutionary struggles against colonialism and empire throughout history: from the frontier wars of the Australian settler colony, to the FLN of Algeria, to Vietnam, and the Haitian revolution.

The Sunday Paper will continue to publish work that is brave and unapologetic, rejects normalisation, honours the martyrs of every anti-imperialist struggle, and upholds the necessity of resistance.

- This editorial note was written by the co-editors of The Sunday Paper Issue Three