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Australia’s ‘big’ problem – what to do with our ageing super-sized statues?

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Australia’s ‘big’ problem – what to do with our ageing super-sized statues?
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.h9p3esjtr
Authors

Clarke, Amy

Abstract

Australia has more than 200 Big Things, from the heritage-listed Pineapple to a giant Captain Cook. What are we to do with these structures as they age and decay? And should we be building new ones?

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 168. 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 27 December 2024.
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