Mayor Promotes Tasmania Overseas

The Mayor of Glamorgan Spring Bay Council, Councillor Bertrand Cadart has once again seized the opportunity to promote Tasmania’s East Coast to the rest of the world through the French media.

He recently accompanied a French film crew who filmed a short documentary titled History: A French Australia? on Tasmania’s East Coast.

As the only French Mayor in Australia, Councillor Cadart was well positioned to accompany the French journalists and film crew to many sites along the East Coast that have been named by French explorers including the explorer Nicolas Baudin in the early 1800s. In the documentary, Mayor Cadart expresses the philosophy of the French explorers of this era who were children of the French Revolution. He believes they were the humanitarians of their era and considered it inappropriate to colonise lands already occupied by indigenous populations, and so did not claim Tasmania as French territory.

The short documentary film includes wonderful footage of the beautiful natural scenery of the Freycinet Penisula, Cape Tourville, Ilse des Phoques, and Cape Faure, which is just south of Schouten Island. Much of this beautiful footage was filmed from the water.

It was aired on France TV on August 5 and seen by an audience of approximately 3 million French speaking people across France and most of the French speaking countries around the world, including Tahiti. As the Mayor explained most French people don’t know about Tasmania and its French history.

The Mayor said “This is the most recent of now four overseas television networks that have aired documentaries featuring our magical East Coast scenery and national parks filled with wonders. It is always an honour for me to host and accompany these film crews knowing that I am doing my bit to spread the word about the hidden treasures of East Coast Tasmania, after all the East Coast is 220 beautiful kilometres full of reasons to “Just Stop” and I want not just Tasmanians and Australians to know about it but the rest of the world.”

To view the short documentary visit the Glamorgan Spring Bay Council website www.gsbc.tas.gov.au and go to latest news to click on the link.

OR, HERE:

http://www.francetvinfo.fr/si-l-australie-etait-devenue-francaise_663555.html

Mayor Bertrand Cadart, Glamorgan Spring Bay Council