Tasmania is sad about the Commonwealth Games uniform. Here's why.

Since the Australian Commonwealth Games uniform was unveiled, it has attracted a significant amount of controversy.

Here is a picture of (very lovely-looking) Kotuku Ngawati wearing it:

Yeah, look. It’s not the most aesthetically pleasing body covering.

But today, criticism of the uniform reached beyond its objective hideousness. Let’s take a closer look:

Yes, that is a map of Australia sans Tasmania.

Now, Tasmania is a little upset about this. Particularly because this year the state is sending seven athlete to the Games. Senator Jacqui Lambie told News Limited:

“I hope that it was an oversight and not deliberate. Tasmania also disappeared from Olympic medals and posters for Baz Luhrmann’s movie Australia, so it’s very disappointing that the same oversight has happened a number of times.”

She then demanded financial compensation for the design… which seems like a bit much:

“As compensation from the Commonwealth government we’ll need extra cash – $5 million – for a tourism advertising campaign – as well as more cash to lower the cost of sea travel to Tasmania.

“In 2008, Tasmania had about $42m spent on tourism and in 2013 we spent $24m.

“An apology without extra cash from the Commonwealth is not a proper way of fixing up this new oversight.”

This isn’t the first time Australia’s forested nether region has been left out at the Commonwealth Games. The state was left disappointed after a group of performers at the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games created a map of Australia, that did not include Tasmania.

But, before we start paying out Tasmania for their – apparently very financially quantifiable – loss, we must ask: have Tasmania really been excluded?

Let’s look at that picture again:

Does Tasmania not appear, or are they simply hiding behind the well-tessellated kangaroos, like WA and SA are in that bottom left corner?

Does Tasmania just need to accept that they are not a particularly easy state to tessellate with?

What do you think?