澳大利亚女性杰西卡·罗伯逊于7月14日在黄金海岸拍摄了一段视频，记录一名Provac Australia公司的驾驶员对打车司机做出种族歧视手势的行为[1]。罗伯逊随后将视频发布到社交媒体，获得数十万次浏览[1]。
面对视频的广泛传播，Provac Australia公司在3天后向罗伯逊发送了10页的律师函，要求其删除视频并声称其构成诽谤[1]。尽管面临法律威胁，罗伯逊表示将继续坚持公开谴责种族歧视行为的立场[1]，并设立了众筹以支付律师费[1]。
公司联合总经理瑞思·兰伯特在Facebook评论中表示，"该驾驶员所做的一切是错误的，我为此道歉"[1]。澳大利亚种族歧视专员吉里达兰·西瓦拉曼指出，这类言论"会感染民众，像疾病一样蔓延，导致街头出现更多公然的种族歧视"[1]。
Jessica Roberson recorded a video on July 14 on the Gold Coast capturing a driver employed by Provac Australia making racist gestures toward her ride-share driver [1]. The footage gained hundreds of thousands of views after Roberson shared it on social media [1]. Three days later, the company sent her a 10-page legal letter demanding she remove the video and alleging it constituted defamation [1].
Despite the legal threat, Roberson has vowed to maintain her position in publicly condemning racist behavior [1]. Provac Australia's joint managing director Rhys Lambert responded to the incident in a Facebook comment, stating: "To the driver involved, what happened to you was wrong, and I'm sorry" [1]. Roberson has since established a crowdfunding campaign to cover legal fees [1]. Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman weighed in on the broader implications, noting that such rhetoric "infects the population and spreads like a disease and leads to more overt racism on our streets" [1].