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Is this the most adorable job ever?

 

The tourism board of the Australian state of Tasmania is recruiting for a unique position, on the hunt for someone to take the mantle of Chief Wombat Cuddler.

The Tasmanian tourism body launched the search after a video of an orphaned wombat joey, known as Derek went viral, racking up hundreds of thousands of views in just a few days. A baby wombat cub's is called a joey.

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