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<p>Australian airline <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/Qantas">Qantas</a> has launched an initiative to encourage cabin crew to stop using gender inappropriate language that might cause offence to the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/lgbti-rights">LGBTI</a> community.</p>
<p>A new information booklet issued to employees bans
gender-specific words such as “honey”, “love” and “guys”, while the
terms “partner”, “spouse” and “parents” are preferred above the more
exclusionary “Husband and wife” and “mum and dad”.</p>
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<p>“We have a long and proud history of promoting
inclusion among our people, our customers and society, including support
of indigenous issues, gender parity in business and marriage equality,”
said Qantas’ people and culture group executive Lesley Grant.</p>
<p>The booklet was issued as part of the airline’s “Spirit of Inclusion” initiative that began in March.</p><div class="gmail-teads-inread" style="height:362px;max-width:560px"><div style=""><div class="gmail-teads-ui-components-label" style="display:block">ADVERTISING</div><div class="gmail-teads-player" id="gmail-teads0"></div><div class="gmail-teads-ui-components-credits" style="display:block"><a href="http://inread-experience.teads.tv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-teads-ui-components-credits-colored">inRead</span> invented by Teads</a></div></div></div>
<p>It also asks employees to try to eliminate “manterruptions”, whereby a man interrupts when a woman is speaking.</p>
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can make groups of people invisible,” says the booklet. “For example,
the use of the term ‘chairman’ can reinforce the idea that leaders are
always men.”</p>
<p>Colonialism is also addressed in the guide, encouraging
staff to be mindful of using the terms “colonisation”, “occupation” or
“invasion” rather than “settlement” when describing the arrival of
Europeans in Australia in the 18th century.</p>
<p>“Describing the arrival of Europeans as a ‘settlement’ is a
view of Australian history from the perspective of England rather than
Australia,” it says.</p>
<p>Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said the move was “political correctness gone way over the top”.</p>
<p>“Frankly, if companies like Qantas want to give their
customers a better a deal, they can scrap all these inclusion units,
just scrap them and save the money, because it’s just rubbish this idea
that we need a corporate thought police,” he told <a href="https://www.4bc.com.au/tag/tony-abbott/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">4BC radio</a>.</p><div class="gmail-teads-inread" style="height:362px;max-width:560px"><div style=""><div class="gmail-teads-ui-components-label" style="display:block">ADVERTISING</div><div class="gmail-teads-player" id="gmail-teads1"></div><div class="gmail-teads-ui-components-credits" style="display:block"><a href="http://inread-experience.teads.tv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-teads-ui-components-credits-colored">inRead</span> invented by Teads</a></div></div></div>
<p>“I mean really and truly, it is a complete and absolute
utter waste of money. Qantas staff are very good people, they are
decent, sensitive people, and they don’t need this kind of nonsense. It
is an insult to them. </p>
<p>“This is the very weird and strange times in which we live.</p></div></div></div>
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