- Hi Tom, FYI, I wrote to Qantas PR today.. Dear Qantas People, I h...ave worked within the LGBT community for many years, but now I am not active, and I am not involved in polatics. FRIENDS. I have always felt reasured that Qantas is a friend to me and to my community. In fact, I know you are, and seeing Qantas in this years Mardi Gras was again a great and proud thing. Many many thanks for that. MEDIA. I have no desire to drag Qantas into media contentention. But I would appreciate your clarification, if it is possible, on Mr Peter Dutton MP media comments today, in which he specifically mentioned Qantas. MR DUTTON. Mr Dutton is saying that Australia's business leaders and biggest corporations, specifically including Qantas, are being bullied into support for same sex marriage by activist groups. In other words, your support for marriage equality is not genuine at all, but rather it is simply a front based on your fear of being bullied by us, the LGBT people. HONESTY. To my mind, Mr Dutton's assertions seem like a complete public nonscence, and that is why I am contacting you. I have never sensed any lack of integrity in the way Qantas opperates within the community on this or any other issue. In this case I wonder wether the reporters involved are checking for any actual facts or evidence backing up Mr Dutton's assertions. Specifically, about Qantas lacking integrity on this issue. Honestly, I doubt the media have done any checking at all for the existence of any real basis to Mr Dutton besmirching my community and your corporation. I plan to express my personal agrivation directly to Mr Dutton and Mr Turnbull, and forcefully, because I don't belive Mr Dutton is being honest about Qantas. Actually, I suspect that it is he who is doing the bullying, and that he is engauged in a type of Gay Bashing designed to bring undone the huge possativity still radiating from this years Mardi Gras. Clearly he wants to kill the social good Qantas and others have done. But is he using lies and dishonesty to do it? I can complain independently to both the PM and to Mr Dutton on this, and I will. If Mr Dutton's assertions are indeed a fiction, then his wrecklessnes should be demonstrated as such, and resisted. Further to this, I was wondering whether you have already, or would you be prepared to, reaffirm in some form or other that Qantas is in fact opperating with a free spirit and with interlectual integrity on this issue, rather than out of fear and bullying. If you could help me in this way , it would be greatly appreciated, as it is not easy for an individual to call out political dishonesty and abuse in a Government. With my thanks whatever the case, and my . . Best Regards Peter Morony +61 xxxxxxxx (attach) STORY DETAILS: See More
- It's not eccessive, it's a bloody disgrace, we post a letter at the ...Esperance post office to a post box in the same building & it goes to Perth only to come back five days later to the same building, that's effiency. See More
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