THE GREAT DUNNY HUNT
The Continence Foundation of Australia is asking for submissions to find Australia’s best public toilets as part of this year’s much-loved Great Dunny Hunt.
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So if you are on the road these school holidays why not try a dunny hunt this year.
These school holidays when people are heading off on holiday, it means they are likely to need a public toilet along the way and are ideally placed to update the National Public Toilet Map at the same time.
Taken for granted by many, awareness and access to quality public toilets is a huge consideration for those living with incontinence who may find it difficult to leave their home for everyday activities due to the fear of not having access to appropriate facilities.
For this year’s hunt, Australians are being asked to take pictures of their favourite public dunny and upload them to the National Public Toilet Map (NPTM) website or app, as well as provide updates to any public toilet facilities listed.
The general public are encouraged to upload their pictures to go into the running to find the best Aussie public toilets from now through to World Continence Week, which will be held from Monday, June 19.
Pics will be judged to find the best public toilets with honourable mention awards given to the most colourful dunny and the dunny in the most unusual location.
Among the judging panel of public toilet experts will be Sean Burford, who won the title of Australia’s Greatest Dunny Hunter in 2022 by entering more than 129 dunnies on the National Public Toilet Map, and Katherine Webber who was awarded the 2018 Rodney Warmington Churchill Fellowship to increase inclusion and accessibility in public toilets by researching taboos, design, policy and legal barriers.
Visit www.continence.org.au/great-dunny-hunt and www.toiletmap.gov.au for more information.
RICH RIVER’S HONOUR
The accolades keep flowing the way of Rich River Golf Club.
The club recently staged a very successful edition of the NSW Open, won by David Micheluzzi.
They received even more good news during the week with the East Course named in Golf Australia magazine’s top 100 public access courses.
The East Course, which hosted the NSW Open, has moved up 14 places to number 68 on the rankings.
VALE JOHN OLSEN
One of Australia's most acclaimed artists, John Olsen, has died at the age of 95.
The painter, known for changing the way people viewed the Australian landscape, died peacefully on Tuesday evening at his home in the NSW southern highlands surrounded by his family.
Born in Newcastle, Olsen's career spanned more than 60 years, with his work exhibited in galleries across the nation and overseas.
He was a giant who never lost the twinkle in his eye, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
“A man of talent, charisma, generosity and humility, he was a poet of the brush, a truly great explorer and interpreter of the Australian landscape. We were so lucky to have him,” he said.
Olsen won the country's major art awards across almost 40 years, including the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes.
His children Louise and Tim Olsen said their father was a bon vivant and raconteur known for his quick wit and rakish beret.
“Our father was a titan of the art world and beloved by many in Australia and overseas but to us he was Dad, in all the wonderful humaneness, complexity and humanity that word encapsulates,” they said in a statement released on Wednesday.
John Olsen was still painting in his studio on Saturday, just days before he died.
TIP OF THE WEEKEND
I’m still trying to work out how Loco did not win that race on Saturday at Sandown as he was narrowly edged out by Gringotts. This week we head back across the border to South Australia and a horse who is working his way back to form in Long Arm (Race 2, No.2). Give him strength.
FAST FIVE QUIZ
1. Lunedi is the Italian word for what day of the week?
2. True or false: the Melbourne Cup has always been run on the first Tuesday in November?
3. Which actor played Wednesday Addams in the 1991 movie The Addams Family?
4. Thursday Island is in which state?
5. Friday I’m In Love was a hit song for which British rock band?
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Why did the Easter bunny go to the hairdresser? Because he had a bad hare day.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Julia Zemiro, TV host and comedian, 56; Sarah Michelle Geller, actor, 46; Craig McDermott, cricketer, 58; Peter Capaldi, actor, 65; Bob Massie, cricketer, 76; Adrien Brody, actor, 50; Robert Carlyle, actor, 62; Jane Flemming, athlete and commentator, 58.
FINALLY
Easter Monday saw the running of the Stawell Gift, one of the time-honoured events on the calendar. Teenagers Ryan Tarrant and Bella Pasquali won the respective men’s and women’s events. Of course my favourite Stawell Gift winner was the great Echuca export Noel Hussey, who later became a legendary sports editor of the Shepparton News. Next year marks 60 years from when “the Hussler” etched his name into the record-books.
FAST FIVE QUIZ ANSWERS
1. Monday, 2. False (the 1866 Melbourne Cup was run on a Thursday and the 1867 Cup was run in October. During the years of 1942 and 1944 it was run on a Saturday), 3. Christina Ricci, 4. Queensland, 5. The Cure.
Gregor Mactaggart is the editor of the Riverine Herald.