How this boat ended up named Ferry McFerryface is one of the weirder stories of the week
A Sydney harbour ferry was called Ferry McFerryface after a public vote inspired, no doubt, buy our very own Boaty McBoatface.
Except, it turns out, the story is a little bit more complicated than that.
https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/958249111823835136
That’s right, they ignored the public vote because they wanted to get in on a bit of the Boaty McBoatface action, and now they’ve been found out.
1. 9NEWS's FOI shows the competition to name a new fleet of NSW ferries cost $100,000
2. Ferry McFerryface was not only ineligible to be accepted under the government’s own criteria but it attracted just 182 votes— Alice Workman (@workmanalice) January 30, 2018
3. NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance picked it even after he was warned by senior bureaucrats of the risks.
4. Clean Up Australia founder Ian Kiernan was the clear winner for the ferry’s naming rights with 2025 eligible votes.— Alice Workman (@workmanalice) January 30, 2018
I think my favourite party of this story is that Constance agreed to the ferry naming competition on the one condition of “no fish names”.
— Alice Workman (@workmanalice) January 30, 2018
It’s now going to be named after a children’s author, May Gibbs.
Ferry McFerryface will be renamed after popular children's author and illustrator May Gibbs amid questions over the name's popularity in a public poll https://t.co/IYKCNptt7I pic.twitter.com/BktiORFQWs
— ABC Sydney (@abcsydney) January 30, 2018
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