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Here is the website... where you can send the mall a message...

http://www.westfield.com/marion/site/contactus/

Joylyn Souter
---- Morgan Gallagher <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,24250024-949,00.html?referrer=email
> 
> A YOUNG mother was followed by police and security officers through a 
> shopping mall then questioned after a complaint over her expressing 
> breast milk in a parents room.
> 
> Sharleen Salmon, who works at at the Westfield Mall in Marion, Adelaide, 
> said she felt harassed and embarrassed when a woman and a cleaner 
> complained about her using the room during her half-hour lunch break.
> 
> The young mum, who recently returned to work to support her family, 
> said: "I was in a private area (in the parents room) behind the curtain 
> and this cleaner just walked in on me and watched what I was doing," the 
> /Guardian Messenger 
> <http://guardian-messenger.whereilive.com.au/news/story/express-delivery-furore/> 
> /reported.
> 
> "She told me the parents room was for parents and breastfeeding only - 
> and that I wasn’t allowed to eat lunch in there.’’
> 
> Ms Salmon said she was using a standard breast pump to express milk to 
> feed her baby daughter Justice, who was being cared for by her father.
> 
> Ms Salmon, who expresses milk once a day, said she was followed back to 
> work by a security guard and a police officer, who said a formal 
> complaint had been made to centre management.
> 
> "They told me that a little kid had been running around in the parents 
> room and had briefly seen what I was doing and had complained to its 
> mum,’’ she said.
> 
> "The mum then complained to security and the cleaner came in to inspect 
> what I was doing. They told me the complaint was that there was a 
> topless woman eating her lunch in the parents room.
> 
> "It’s tough enough that I have to do this during my break, but for a 
> complaint to be made about me doing it, is really upsetting.’’
> 
> Westfield management did not return several calls for comment.
> 
> Breastfeeding Association spokeswoman Tracey Kelly said many people were 
> ignorant about expressing milk.
> 
> "There’s a public ignorance and there’s still a lack of knowledge around 
> breastfeeding and how it works,’’ she said.
> 
> Ms Kelly, who is also the Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace Accreditation 
> program manager, said returning to work was an emotional time for 
> mothers, regardless of how they fed their baby.
> 
> "This mother was very humiliated and something like this could have seen 
> the end of her expressing milk or working.
> 
> "It’s already very stressful and then to have someone complain about it 
> is absolutely traumatising.".
> 
> Ms Salmon has made a complaint to the Equal Opportunity Commission and 
> is awaiting a response.
> 
> - - -
> 
> ``A woman who is treated unfairly because she is breastfeeding can 
> complain to the Commissioner for Equal Opportunity, and we do receive 
> complaints about how women who are breastfeeding are treated,’’ Ms 
> Matthews wrote.
> 
> http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,24250024-949,00.html?referrer=email
> 
> Morgan Gallagher
> 
> 
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