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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
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BEST JOBS IN THE WORLD CAMPAIGN

Mr ODENWALDER (Little Para) (15:15): My question is to the Minister for Tourism. Can the minister update the house about the Best Jobs in the World campaign?

The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL (Mawson—Minister for Tourism, Minister for Recreation and Sport) (15:15): I thank the member for Little Para for the question. At the moment we have joined forces with five other states and territories and with Tourism Australia to promote the best job in the world and we are giving away six prizes to people from overseas in the youth market, that is the 15 to 29 age group, which represents 26 per cent of visitors to Australia. It is also one of those groups where the people who come in that age group are more likely to get out into the regions as well.

When I was up in Port Pirie, the member for Frome and I walked out of the visitor information centre one day and we ran into a couple of French tourists. I was in Renmark a few weeks ago and ran into four pastry chefs, again from France. So many of you in the chamber would know that this youth market from overseas is very popular indeed.

South Australia and New South Wales were about dead level on how many applicants we had. For South Australia it was about 8,100. The job that we are offering is wildlife caretaker, so the whole theme is to get people up close and personal with our furry critters and some of those that aren't so furry like sea lions and great white sharks.

On Saturday I went up to Cleland and met the three finalists for the South Australian job: Cee-Cee from Taiwan, Greg from Canada and Nick from the USA. We were there with Olivia the snake. Olivia is a python who stretched around all four of us and she is only a quarter of her potential length, so she is going to be a big girl when she grows up.

After they had been to Cleland, they took off to beautiful Port Lincoln where they went swimming with the sea lions. They had a fantastic time over there, and anyone who is on Facebook or social media can follow their adventures. They were on Kangaroo Island—and I am sure the member for Finniss was happy to have them over there—tweeting and Facebooking and doing all the social media stuff that they do and really putting South Australia on the map in that demographic. The marketing campaign is done—everything that we could possibly have asked for so far, and they will continue to get around the state.

I want to thank you, Mr Speaker, for allowing us in here a couple of months ago to launch this competition. We had a couple of beautiful little joeys running around in the chamber before parliament started for the day and those images went right throughout Asia, thanks to Nick Harmsen getting that on the ABC's Asian TV network.

I would also like to thank Ann Pashley and Robyn Van Blyenburgh from the Native Animal Network group up in the hills for bringing those joeys in here. It was a great image that fitted in with exactly what we are trying to do here in South Australia: show off our natural attributes. Some of those are physical and some of those are the animals that we have. Stay tuned: the winner of the Best Jobs in the World for South Australia will be announced in Sydney on Friday.

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