• Chris Hipkins: Labour leader dismisses anti-LGBTQ protests as 'pathetic'

  • Feb 16 2025
  • Length: 15 mins
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Chris Hipkins: Labour leader dismisses anti-LGBTQ protests as 'pathetic'

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  • Labour's leader has labelled anti-LGBTQ protests 'pathetic'.

    People linked to Destiny Church stormed a children's drag event at a west Auckland library, leading to some 30 people had being barricaded inside.

    Later, police intervened when a group disrupted Pride Parade festivities on Ponsonby Road with a haka.

    Chris Hipkins says we have free speech in New Zealand, but it's not that.

    He says that sort of behaviour isn't an exercise in free speech - it's shouting other people down and stopping them from what they're free to do in a democratic country.

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