Target’s certainly on the nose in Geelong for moving headquarters but its namesake’s toilets are raising a real stink in the US.
A #BoycottTarget campaign gathered over half a million signatures in less than a week after the US retailer announced customers could choose toilets according to their gender identity.
The policy might have been popular with the LGBTI community but failed to hit the, er, target, with the American Family Association, whose hashtag boycott campaign garnered signatures in droves amid concerns about sex predators.
Now with news this week of Australia’s Target has laying off dozens of staff in Geelong, maybe it’s time for a similar campaign in the land Down Under.
Whoever thought Geelong council was sacked because of politics has it all wrong.
A Touch of the Fumbles, Adelaide’s In Daily footy column, purports an entirely different “plot” behind the sacking – and it’s football related, of course.
Referring to the second best-on-ground performance by Patrick Dangerfield against Port Adelaide last weekend, the column suggested the recruit was still smarting from the fact that his father-in-law, Bruce Harwood, was a prominent member of the “infamous” dismissed council.
The plot thickened with comment from ex-mayor Darren Lyons boasting that the pair plotted Dangerfield’s return for some time.
“We’re not sure if this admission prompted the council’s mass sacking but we suspect so – and quite right too,” the column proclaimed.
Naturally, it merely enhances the view that Geelong runs entirely on football.
Perhaps the council sacking has also impacted staff more than they let on.
Council workers recently installed a disabled parking space in Storrer Avenue, East Geelong, outside Geelong Amateur Radio Club.
It has a lovely new disability logo painted on the road surface, crisp white lines and two brand-spanking-new signs at either end of the space.
The only problem is the signs point in the wrong directions.
