Comments on: Mitcham smashes another ceiling /opinion/soapbox-opinion/mitcham-smashes-another-ceiling/4176 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:12:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Sacha /opinion/soapbox-opinion/mitcham-smashes-another-ceiling/4176#comment-11191 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:12:57 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=4176#comment-11191 It’s great that Matthew Mitcham has found sponsorship from Telstra, and that Telstra’s doing the right thing in terms of glbt staff and policies including supporting their glbt staff group Spectrum.

However, I understand that New Mardi Gras won’t allow the Spectrum staff group to have its own entry in the parade unless Telstra enters a sponsorship deal with New Mardi Gras.

This is pretty unfair to Spectrum members. Why should they be prevented from having a separate entry in the parade just because New Mardi Gras thinks it can obtain more money from the company they work for?

]]> By: shayne chester /opinion/soapbox-opinion/mitcham-smashes-another-ceiling/4176#comment-11058 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:38:52 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=4176#comment-11058 Congratulations to Matthew Mitcham, the sponsorship will mean he is able to continue his current training schedule up to London in 2012. You have to admire the guy for so many reasons, not just for breaking Olympic diving records, but for his battles with depression and for having been so proudly ‘out’ since he was fourteen. It’s a mark of his graciousness, perhaps, that he attributed his difficulty in getting sponsorship to the current financial crisis.

Kudos too, to the Spectrum group of glbqti Telstra employees who pushed for this sponsorship.

Now, if I can just get past the voice queueing computer at Telstra and find a service representative with two brain cells to rub together who can sort out all the cock ups in my bill, I’ll be happy….

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