Upon browsing through all the blogs of my classmates, I came across my calss mate Stacey Barry’s first blog about Living the dream! It was an eye-opener for someone like me a city dweller from Taiwan to realize that there is a beautiful place such as this existed on earth. If it wasn’t because of the Australian government’s campaign and my classmate’s blogs I would never get to know such a place.
After having had read my classmate’s blogs, I immediately went online search for more information about this campaign and the island. The information that I had found was very exciting and enticing for me. The job the Australian government was offering worth about $105,000 US dollars for six months and plus free air tickets from the winner’s home town to the Hamilton Island. All the winner had to do was to explore the island and to write about it on the blogs everyday for everyone to see in the world.
The Australian government started this campaign because of they want to protect AUD $18 billion tourism industry. Once the adds was posted to the world it generated 1.4 million applicants around the world in very short period of time. This was best advertistment ever, because for all the amount they had invest in one person they get back billions in turns of tourism money. Because of this adds everybody know about there is an beautiful island before the winner writes on the blog.
These are some applicants’ video from different country:
