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Tasmania's lavender bear smells potential of gigantic Chinese market
'SO CUTE!': President Xi and his wife being presented with Bobbie in Hobart last November, a creation of Tasmanian lavender farm owner Robert Ravens.
PHOTO: AFP
'SO CUTE!': President Xi and his wife being presented with Bobbie in Hobart last November, a creation of Tasmanian lavender farm owner Robert Ravens (above).
PHOTO: AFP
Nabowla, Australia
WHEN Chinese President Xi Jinping stepped onto the airport tarmac in Australia's smallest state of Tasmania last November, he was presented with a purple-coloured fluffy toy called Bobbie.
The welcome gift he received - stuffed with lavender and wheat - was not
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