Residents walking past the Campbelltown Council headquarters in Queen Street this morning may have thought the Sydney Mardi Gras had come to town.
That’s because about 30 or 40 blokes dressed in pink – all council staff – were milling about outside the building just after 10am.
But residents needn’t be alarmed – they were wearing pink because they were joining in the fun of Real Men Wear Pink, a National Breast Cancer Foundation campaign to raise funds for life-changing breast cancer research.
The foundation says research if the only way to prevent deaths and improve how breast cancer is diagnosed, managed and treated.
Of course they were also wearing the pink as a sign that even council staff like to have fun from time to time.
With the Mayor, Cr Paul Hawker, resplendent in a splash of pink leading the way, the council directors and their teams walked down to the carpark on the Broughton Street side for photographs.
Cr Hawker, who later kept the pink on when he walked around to the civic centre polling booth for pre-poll voting, praised the staff for the initiative.
“I think it’s great,’’ he said.
“It supports the Breast Cancer Foundation, and it’s for men to wear pink at work and so it’s great to see all the men here wearing pink this morning.
“It’s just a great thing to see they are involved in the community and certainly helping the Breast Cancer Foundation.
“Every dollar counts for the Breast Cancer Foundation,’’ he said.
“It was great to see that all the directors brought their teams down all dressed up in pink.’’
Everyone taking part in the initiative also made a donation, with all funds raised to go to the foundation.
While breast cancer is about 100 times less common among men than women, that’s still one in 1,000 men who will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
