{"id":19737,"date":"2016-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/woolworths-recalls-australia-day-hats-after-giant-blunder\/"},"modified":"2016-01-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T00:00:00","slug":"woolworths-recalls-australia-day-hats-after-giant-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/woolworths-recalls-australia-day-hats-after-giant-blunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Woolworths recalls Australia Day hats after giant backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Upset locals have called a special Australia Day hat sold in Woolies stores and featuring a map of the country as \u201coffensive\u201d and \u201ccruel\u201d because it was missing Tasmania.<\/h3>\n<p>The blue cap features a map of Australia \u2013 without Tasmania \u2013 a union jack and the southern cross embroidered on the front.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hat2.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"422\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>The hat sold in Woolworths stores was missing the state of Tasmania<\/h6>\n<h3>\u201cWe should be on the map. We\u2019re all one country aren\u2019t we?\u201d one Tassie local told 7 News.<\/h3>\n<p>Another said it was \u201ccruel\u201d while one woman said \u201cI always find it offensive,\u201d referring to other moments Tasmania has been forgotten, including when it was famously left off the Australian swimming team\u2019s 2014 Commonwealth Games swimsuits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hat_comm_games.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Tasmania was famously left off Australia&#8217;s 2014 Commonwealth Games swimsuit<\/h6>\n<h3>The supermarket giant said it would take action over the hats, which have sparked a backlash.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWoolworths is aware of the issue and in the process of withdrawing the product from our supermarket shelves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/brad-crouch-on-track-says-crows-coach-don-pyke\">DON PYKE ANSWERS THE QUESTION EVERYONE IS ASKING<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/voting-opens-on-six-potential-new-australian-flags\">VOTING OPENS ON SIX NEW POTENTIAL AUSSIE FLAGS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upset locals have called a special Australia Day hat sold in Woolies stores and featuring a map of the country as \u201coffensive\u201d and \u201ccruel\u201d because it was missing Tasmania. The blue cap features a map of Australia \u2013 without Tasmania \u2013 a union jack and the southern cross embroidered on the front. The hat sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-19737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Woolworths recalls Australia Day hats after giant backlash - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/woolworths-recalls-australia-day-hats-after-giant-blunder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Woolworths recalls Australia Day hats after giant backlash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Upset locals have called a special Australia Day hat sold in Woolies stores and featuring a map of the country as \u201coffensive\u201d and \u201ccruel\u201d because it was missing Tasmania. 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