A 750kg laughing kookaburra sculpture stationed in a Brisbane front yard during the Covid-19 lockdown has ‘taken off’ north to a Townsville culture festival. Farvardin Daliri, a Townsville local, was stuck in Brisbane during the lockdown and spent his spare time perfecting the monster-sized Australian native bird
• ‘People adore it’: Australian man spends lockdown building giant kookaburra – https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/27/people-adore-it-australian-man-spends-lockdown-building-giant-kookaburra