Tag: Hobart
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Tasmania Hobart Council apology to Louise Elliot
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City of Hobart’s chief executive officer has found Hobart councillor Louise Elliot was discriminated against, lied to, and unfairly treated after she was blocked from booking a venue because of her political beliefs. In September last year, Cr Elliot attempted to book the Town Hall Ballroom for an event in November which she described as…
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Call on Minister Nic Street to establish Hobart City Council Inquiry
Women Speak Tasmania have written to the Local Government Minister Nic Street calling on him to establish a Parliamentarty Inquiry into the toxic culture at Hobart City Council exposed through documents obtained under RTI by Cr Louise Elliot and Women Speak Tasmania. Spokesperson Cassandra Colefax said ‘The recent articles in The Australian on 3 May…
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Tasmanian Ombudsman investigates Hobart City Council
Tasmania’s Ombudsman has launched an investigation into claims Hobart City Council and Lord Mayor breached privacy laws by tipping off transgender activists about a proposed “women’s rights” event. After a preliminary assessment, the Ombudsman has appointed a senior investigator to probe a complaint by councillor Louise Elliot. Ms Elliot alleges her private request to book…
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Whistleblower exposes Hobart City Council transgender rights cover-up
Emails showing a forum critical of transgender rights was “blocked” by Hobart City Council staff were withheld from release under right to information, in conduct the council concedes may be criminal. Two senior staff whose emails were caught up in an RTI request by councillor and transgender rights critic Louise Elliot have in recent weeks either resigned…
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Panel on Free Speech in Australia and book launch
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Free Speech Union Australia organised a discussion panel at Hobart Town Hall with Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan to discuss his book, Tough Crowd. In it, he details how he was cancelled, banned from Twitter, and effectively ejected from the UK comedy scene for making jokes about trans people. He has since expressed views critical of…
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Email to Fiona Cameron Ombudsman ABC Hobart Radio complaint
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Women Speak Tasmania letter to Fiona Cameron- ABC Ombudsman, with a complain about Leon Compton bias interview with Louise Elliot COMPLAINT: ABC Hobart Radio Leon Compton Interview with Louise Elliot We wish to make a complaint about the ABC Radio Tasmania Mornings host Leon Compton and his interview with Independent Candidate for Clarke and Hobart…
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Protesters call for Minister’s intervention
Protesters will be gathering outside Hobart Town Hall at 10am Wednesday 31 January 2024 in support of Hobart Councillor Louise Elliot and freedom of political communication and other matters concerning the toxic culture in the leadership of Hobart City Council. Louise Elliot has endured 18 months of an orchestrated campaign by a group of Councillors…
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WST condemns HCC bullying of Councillor Elliot
Women Speak Tasmania members staged a series of protests against the bullying of Councillor Louise Elliott Councillor Elliott has been targeted because of her gender critical beliefs.
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‘I’m no Nazi; just public enemy No. 1’, says transgender law critic Kellie-Jay Keen
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in NewsA British activist who led an anti-transgender reform rally alongside a Victorian Liberal MP says the neo-Nazis who ambushed their event are “sad, pathetic men” and she has no links to the far right, as Anthony Albanese and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews condemned her cause. Kellie-Jay Keen, speaking to The Australian on Tuesday after her…