Angry parents of Western Australian junior nippers are pushing for their surf life saving club to cut ties and remove uniform logos of a major gas company sponsor.
Over 400 parents have signed a “Free the Nippers” letter addressed to the surf life saving organisation that coordinates volunteers patrolling the beaches across Western Australia.
Sustain Surf chair and Nippers parent James Anderson told the Guardian that using junior life saving clubs to advertise the gas company was unethical. “We wouldn’t let a cigarette company stick its logo on our kids, and we shouldn’t let Woodside get away with using Nippers to advertise its fossil fuel business,” he said.
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