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From the Big Bogan to Larry the Lobster, why do towns build Big Things?

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From the Big Bogan to Larry the Lobster, why do towns build Big Things?
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.kytwpannk
Authors

Clarke, Amy

Abstract

Since the 1960s, towns across Australia have built ‘Big Things’ in the hope of driving tourism. But do they deliver bang for buck?

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 47. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 June 2026.
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#1,099,917
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of 208,887 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,187,958 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 208,887 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.9. This one is in the 44th percentile – i.e., 44% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.