BIG Things in Australia

29/03/2025

All finished! The Big Potato is now the Big Pig! Complete with Ferdinand the duck and the three singing mice, Robertson's has a brand new BIG attraction - commemorating 30 years since the filming of Babe. 🐷🦆🐁

28/03/2025

This year the small north-west town of Penguin celebrates its 150th anniversary. What started as a settlement trading timber and potatoes by sea has turned into a bustling tourist town.

06/03/2025

Cyclone Alfred just broke one of the big prawns feelers. Them’s fighting moves Alf !
Keep preparing your safety and house all, help your neighbors, stay strong, stay safe 💪🏼🎣🇦🇺

12/01/2025

https://www.facebook.com/100064845842232/posts/1019855606852625/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Construction of giant landmarks across Australia has not slowed, despite challenges and debates over heritage conservation, writes Dr Amy Clarke for The Conversation.

12/08/2024

I’m conflicted.. Is it a BIG thing?? Redmond Park Goondiwindi..

11/08/2024

Jackie Howe was a big thing (a gun shearer) and the shears should qualify here in Warwick)

27/07/2024

Big Grappling Goannas at Barkly Homestead.... This is new to me.

Image by Steven Stuart

30/06/2024

A Big Thing ... scaled down to fit in an Aussie front yard.

In the biggest city on WA's southern coast, a scale replica of the Italian icon has brought joy to generations of locals and visitors.

28/06/2024

📍The Big Slurpee!
📆 2009
📸 Shared with thanks from BIG Things in Australia group (OP Matt Draper)

"The Big Slurpee is perhaps the shortest-lived Big Thing in Australia. It was once standing at Coffs Harbour Showground in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales.

The mammoth Slurpee was purposely built to advertise a new product for the 7Eleven chain of convenience stores in 2009. The product was described as the “biggest icy cold drink” in Australia, and to match the name, a replica of the famous drink, the Big Slurpee, was appropriate for its advertisement.

The new drink came in a 1.8-litre cup filled to the brim. Its replica stood 11 metres high and 6 metres wide. It took over four months to complete its construction, which was done in Melbourne. The gigantic cup was then transported to Coffs Harbour just in time for 7Eleven’s new drink campaign.
Interestingly, according to research, it would take eight months to fill the Big Slurpee with a drink using a normal Slurpee machine. In addition, an adult would take 14 years to finish drinking from the Big Slurpee!
Although short-lived, the Big Slurpee attracted the needed attention for the campaign, which was strategically launched in the summer when the demand for cold drinks was high. It was finally dismantled on March 3, 2009, after a successful campaign."

28/06/2024

Big sand bags on Keppel Island Yeppoon

28/06/2024