New Zealand is really bored of your Instagram posts. The country has launched a new tourism campaign, urging travellers to stop mimicking photos they see online and share something new instead.
The call was made in a two-minute video, starring comedian Tom Sainsbury as a member of the Social Observation Squad (SOS). The official follows tourists to some of the country s most famous landscapes and urges them to stop traveling under the social influence. I ve been alerted to a situation that s been happening a lot lately, he says at the start of the campaign. People have been seeing those photos on social media, and they re going to great lengths to copy them.
Tauranga council: Govt papers reveal possible five-year intervention
23 Dec, 2020 05:00 PM
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Tauranga City Council chambers. A site that won t see a full team of elected members until, potentially, 2025. Photo / File
Bay of Plenty Times
By: Samantha Motion and Kiri Gillespie
A commission soon to be appointed to govern the Tauranga City Council could be in place for up to five years, documents from the Department of Internal Affairs show. On Tuesday, the department released 68 pages of documents charting the Crown s decision to intervene in the troubled Tauranga City Council by appointing a commission following a turbulent year of bitter infighting.