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Roger Cook as WA’s tourism numbers drop despite $75m spend, but Premier blames new counting method

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Numbers do lie, according to the Cook Government which has blamed what looks like a slump in overnight visitors and tourism jobs on Canberra’s new way of counting them.

Headline as published: Roger Cook under fire as WA’s tourism numbers drop despite $75m spend, but Premier blames new counting method

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