Gavin Pearce (Braddon, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Health, Aged Care and Indigenous Health Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Australian Top Tourism Town Award winners are set to be announced this Thursday. In an amazing achievement, the electorate of Braddon, which covers the north-west of the west coast and King Island in the state of Tasmania, is home to three out of those four Tasmanian finalists.

Leveraging off our government's $10 million investment into the Living City project, Devonport is running to be named Australia's Top Tourism Town. The engine room of our state's prosperity, the historical and re-imagined mining town of Queenstown on our rugged west coast, has been nominated for Australia's Small Tourism Town Award. Nestled in the base of an extinct volcanic plug that we call The Nut, our jewel in the crown, the beautiful hamlet of Stanley, on the far north-west coast is Tasmania's representative in the Tiny Tourism Town category.

Congratulations to the Tourism Association, to councils, to local chambers of commerce, to all our hardworking tourism operators out there, to business owners and to community volunteers for all that you've done. It's been an outstanding effort and an outstanding achievement. I've said many times in this place that our region punches well above its weight, and this is another fine example of that. Good luck to Devonport, to Queenstown and to Stanley, on Thursday.