How Australia’s Big Things helped shape our tourism industry, and our culture
David Nichols and Cristina Garduño Freeman
January 13, 2021
The Big Banana in Coffs Harbour, NSW, in 2006. Source: Flickr/sixty4coupe.
As many Australians enjoy (relatively) COVID-normal summer holidays, many of us may be heading off on road trips, family breaks or beach holidays to take in the much-missed Australian sites.
And some of those sites may be big. The Big Pineapple. The Big Merino. Even the Big Prawn.
Photos of Big Things, like the Big Pineapple, serve a larger social and cultural purpose (as well as being kitsch). Picture: Mark Gillman.