Tourism Tasmania says old mate has been ‘coming to Tassie for years’ in response to SA campaign

Tourism Tasmania has responded to South Australian Tourism’s now infamous ‘Old Mate’ campaign with its own version of the controversial ad.

The Tasmanian version shows their own elderly man downing a mountain of fresh oysters, with the voice over stating “Don’t feel sorry for old mate, he’s been coming to Tassie for years”.

The South Australian Tourism Commission campaign launched three weeks ago, with a film of an elderly man crying whilst seeing the sights of Adelaide.

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