Tourism Queensland, We TRUSTED You!
Oh, wow. I am tremendously disappointed to learn that Tourism Queensland have been fibbing to desperate would-be Queenslanders, because I AM ONE OF THEM.
Tourism Queensland has admitted it “messed up” by not making it clear a video of a woman tattooing the Great Barrier Reef on her arm was an example and not an entry in a $150,000-a-year job contest.
Thousands of desperate job seekers have entered an internet competition to provide a 60-second video to become Hamilton Island’s new caretaker, which has a salary of $150,000.
Among the videos entered was that of a woman visiting a tattoo parlour to have a 10cm tattoo spruiking her love for the Great Barrier Reef on her arm.
But the video in fact featured Rhiannon Craig, a digital project manager at the Cummins Nitro agency in Brisbane, which created the job campaign, and the tattoo was a transfer.
Nowhere on the site did it say the video was created for Tourism Queensland as an example and media outlets across the world reported the entry as legitimate.
I mean, maybe it was an honest mistake. But how can we truly know? Maybe there isn’t even a job up there for anyone! And to think, Your Editor was planning on entering that very competition in a week’s time (topping up my tan at the moment, you see) in the hope of eventually writing nonsense for Defamer Australia and Tourism Queensland from my future home office – a banana lounge.
But now I don’t know if I’ll even enter any more, and I was so, so sure I’d win. Tourism Queensland? You’ve broken my heart. It’s like you’re the Natalie Bassingwaighte of state tourism.
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