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Where the hell are you going with military statues that cost “more than the town” to build?! Outside of the big cities I can’t think of many places with more than a small (less than 1m) statue and a plaque. And I’ve lived in every state and territory except Tasmania and New Zealand.

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Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The only way you could have signed off better was to leave out Tasmania since we don’t want that and we claim nz

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- Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Haha couldn’t resist the NZ joke.
  
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  - deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    We do actually like our West Islands neighbours.
    
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eureka@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Anecdotally, the one in a park near where I lived (furthest suburbs of a city) was much large than that. Some examples of larger ones can be found just by searching images of australia war monument in park (not including the huge ones in some cities, like the Anzac Memorial in Sydney or the Canberra Australian War Memorial)

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- Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  And the majority of small towns have a small memorial that you’d have to go hunting to find. Google searches will of course tend towards the bigger, more obvious ones.
  
  I live in a country town. Our memorial is (literally) 1.2m tall, made of concrete and takes up less than 3m square. It has been there since the 80’s.
  
  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of fetishising the military. But the OP suggestion that they’re all massive monuments is patently absurd.
  
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  - guismo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Sorry, I exagerated a lot. But yes, I’ve seen quite a few towns where it seems like the memorial was the biggest public investment in the town.
    
    Exaggerations my search is still the same. But yes, as eureka says, there are some pretty big ones. Luckily some times some big ones that are unrelated to war, but very rare. Like Barcaldine I think, where there is a very big and beautiful monument to worker’s strikes. I was very surprised when I saw it and found it’s not military.
    
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    Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    monumentaustralia.org.au/search Incredibly detailed info on monuments all over the country. Lots of non-conflict-related ones.
    
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