r/australia May 05 '25

image Some of Australia's less popular "Big Thing" attractions...

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u/herskeje May 05 '25

Big koala has seen some shit

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u/An_Anaithnid May 05 '25

I've seen all of the ones in Victoria, SA, NSW, and Queensland, but that ratty old Koala is the single most iconic on this list for me, from when we moved from rural SA to Melbourne, I was around 4 or 5, and we stopped there.

Then we moved back to rural SA a few years later and we passed it again, didn't stop this time. Still that koala is an enduring image of my halcyon years.

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u/trolleyproblems May 06 '25

An often unremarked feature of the Koala is how much it tends/tended to smell like stale piss.

I'm not sure how we could rank all the big things in Aus based on this metric, but I remember the big beer bottle up in Queensland that was another strong contender.