As face-painted, beer swilling travellers and expats at green and yellow-decorated drinking holes around the country celebrate Australia Day today a more decorous affair takes place tonight.About 280 New Zealand business people with transtasman links will
As face-painted, beer swilling travellers and expats at green and yellow-decorated drinking holes around the country celebrate Australia Day today a more decorous affair takes place tonight.
About 280 New Zealand business people with transtasman links will attend a black-tie cocktail evening in Auckland, hosted by Austrade, the Australian Counsul and Tourism Australia.
Organised to celebrate and promote trans-Tasman business relations, the event also signals closer collaboration and integration between the three organisations.
Keen to promote Australia’s food and wine sector in particular, Tourism Australia and the Australian Consul are said to be looking at ways to join forces at general events to showcase the country’s tourism offering.
The day Australians celebrate “everything great about Australia and being Australian” commemorates the arrival in 1788 of Captain Arthur Phillip, commander of the First Fleet of eleven convict ships from Great Britain and the first governor of New South Wales at Sydney Cove.
