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 or been placed on “extended leave”.
The Weekend Australian can reveal emails to and from the council’s creative city manager, Jamie Smith, were withheld from the RTI disclosure to Ms Elliot and only emerged later thanks to a whistleblower.
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