From the Big Banana to the Big Lobster, Australia has more than 230 novelty sculptures. Now a public vote on a satirical Facebook page has revealed our four 's***tist big things'.
It's now in the running for "Australia's Shittest Big Things" after thousands nominated its self-proclaimed World's Tallest Bin, which sits at the top of the main street on a patch of red dirt known as World's Tallest Bin Park.According to local historian Tim Moore, it was installed in the early 1980s during a campaign to clean up Australia.Creators receive death threats
"We periodically receive death threats from humourless man-babies, plus locals have begged us not to tell anyone because they don't want to be associated with us," he said.Mr Rissole said his top pick for the new category was the Big Merino in Goulburn, New South Wales, but it failed to make the final cut."It looks like it was designed by someone who's had a sheep described to them over the phone, rather than ever actually having any interactions with the animal itself.
"Most big things will be promoting some aspects of the town, like an industry or some sort of tourist attraction.This statue of Captain Cook was a controversial sight in Cairns for 50 years.He said the big bin was tracking well among voters, alongside the controversial "Nazi-saluting" Captain James Cook which stood a whopping eight metres high in the tropical Queensland city of Cairns for 50 years.who relocated it to their property in Mount Molloy this year.
While Mr Rissole said the competition was intended to be a bit of a laugh, the owner of the Giant Koala, Patricia Crute, did not think it was funny.
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