Peter Slipper (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

There is an interesting campaign at the moment involving one of the world’s best known board games—Monopoly. Hasbro, the company that will make the Australian Monopoly, will launch an updated version of the board game in June. The new board design will see the coveted blue-ribbon sites of Mayfair and Park Lane replaced by some of Australia’s most popular locations. I think the traditional Monopoly is a wonderful game and I hope that it continues to be available, but it is also a tremendous idea to invite Australians to vote for the locations that they want to be placed on the Monopoly board. Everyone is allowed to vote once a day. I must confess that I have been regularly voting for the Sunshine Coast and Australia Zoo. For a while, as far as Queensland was concerned, the Great Barrier Reef and the Sunshine Coast were vying for top position and then the Sunshine Coast pipped the Great Barrier Reef. It is interesting that the Gold Coast was a very poor third, right down the bottom of the list.

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