Have a look at Tourism Whitsundays front page of their website (pictured left) here;
Now go down to the bottom of the page and click the French flag . . . (a picture version of that page is displayed bottom right.)
Now, I'm no expert in Français, but I haven't seen a French dialect like that since I visited Little Italy in Sydney.
The incorrect translation on Tourism Whitsundays' website has been there for around a year - I presumed they would have picked it up, but apparently no one at Tourism Whitsundays has bothered to check. Now is an appropriate time to point it out.
OK, it may seem petty picking on what may be a trivial matter, (plus the overflowing of items in the right margin), but Tourism Whitsundays has just been given $420,000 by the Queensland Government, to build a new website plus seven clones covering the regions along the Queensland coast.
Yes, the same people that brought you the examples above (and have been that way for around a year) have just been given $420,000 Queensland taxpayer dollars (about 10c from every QLDer) for a website.
As of Friday 30 July 2010, no tenders had been called for this single project. In Victoria, I believe any project supported by government money worth over $105,000 must go to tender. Why hasn't this single project gone to tender?
Not only should the Queensland taxpayers be concerned about how their money is given away, but also concern about who in the Queensland government made the decision to do this, and why.
If the Tourism Whitsundays website was used as a CV from a prospective employee looking for a job with me, then they would not have made the first interview. So why did they get $420,000 and control of the project? It's quite obvious that they are not sure what they are doing.
* Tourism Whitsundays 'celebrate' the first anniversary of the conviction of the Tourism Whitsundays Financial Officer for $350,000 internal fraud this month.
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