PERTH, Australia, 7 March 2019: A blunder in a federal advertising campaign, distributed by Tourism Australia, encourages visitors to “catch the sunset” from the east-facing side of Perth’s Kings Park is embarrassing, Premier Mark McGowan told Australia Associated Press earlier this week.
The sun sets over the ocean in Western Australia, while the view from Kings Park is eastward offering awesome sunrises over the city’s hill country region.
State premier McGowan said the gaffe showed Tourism Australia needed to focus more on WA.
“It’s a bit embarrassing for the federal government that it doesn’t know that the sun goes down in the west,” he told reporters on Friday.
WA tourism minister Paul Papalia said the gaffe was a typical example of how Canberra thinks about the state.
“Tourism Australia still, despite two years of campaigning on this sort of stuff, is very east coast-centric,” Papalia claimed in a radio interview.
“It’s not me being parochial, it’s just that we’re geographically in a different place.”
Tourism Australia remained silent on the sunset gaffe
(Source: Australian Associated Press)
