Pure imagination– Tasmanian prime minister vows to build world’s biggest chocolate fountain if re-elected

Tasmanian premier Jeremy Rockliff said if his government was re-elected, he would create a new 'chocolate experience'. Above, a poster for the 1972 film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'

Harriet Barber
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The Tasmanian premier has channelled his inner Willy Wonka by promising to build the world’s largest chocolate fountain if voters re-elect him.

During a visit to the Cadbury chocolate factory in Hobart yesterday, Jeremy Rockliff said that if his Liberal government was re-elected, he would create a new “chocolate experience” that would be “the greatest thing to happen to tourism since Mona [The Museum of Old and New Art]”.