Police are investigating after white paint was poured over the rainbow crossing on Karangahape Rd in Auckland overnight. Nobody has taken responsibility for.
Police are investigating after white paint was poured over the rainbow crossing on Karangahape Rd in Auckland overnight.
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The Free Speech Coalition has laid a complaint against AT’s Senior Communications Interface Advisor, John Nottage, for his defamatory, and intimidating campaign to publicly harass a colleague due to private political views Mr Nottage took exception to. The political views were totally unrelated to Auckland Transport, or the victim’s job.
Free Speech Coalition spokesperson Jordan Williams says: “It appears Mr Nottage has set out to publicly shame and lead an online harassment campaign to silence someone due to his political views. For the victim’s freedom of speech – in this case freedom to express his political opinion – to be protected, AT must uphold its duties under the Human Rights Act and promote tolerance among its employees.”
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It’s Pride month and the LGBTQIA+ community are outraged by what is seen as a “transphobic” facebook comment by senior Auckland Transport staff Stephen Rainbow. (File photo)
Auckland Transport is investigating a social media post by a member of management about gay conversion therapy, which has sparked anger and allegations of transphobia from a council employee. On Tuesday night, AT’s Stephen Rainbow replied to a post in the Rainbow Auckland Networking Group on Facebook. The post was calling for people to sign a petition to ban gay conversion therapy. Rainbow’s reply said: “be careful.there’s some elements of the trans agenda being sneakily promoted through this campaign”.