Towering more than 5 metres above a park in Victoria's north-west is a large shrivelled brown sculpture with a beaming smile.

The Big Sultana in Mildura has been unveiled as Australia's newest big thing.

Noice !

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If we're going to be kitschy let's really make the most of the Big Sultana. It could be Big Social Cohesion Sultana.

It's very Aussie AND it's brown and it's not gender-specific AND it's happy. It could be dressed up on special occasions with varying cultural accessories so it could become anything from indigenous to Aussie Farmer to wearing a Sikh turban or a Muslim hijab or a Jewish kippah. It could be a drag queen. It could be a surfer. It could be a baby. It could be an oldy. The options are many...

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