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A giant steel kookaburra created by sculptor Chris Fussell for Donald and installed at the new Kooka’s Country Cookies factory precinct in 2025.
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The Big Kookaburra
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Chris Fussell spent two years on his second giant kookaburra, and finished it in April 2025.
The steel bird now marks the new Kooka's Country Cookies factory precinct at 56–58 Racecourse Road in Donald, in the Victorian Wimmera. It is the sculptor's second work on the subject – he made an earlier Big Kookaburra at Kurri Kurri in New South Wales – and by his own account the appeal is in the making rather than the subject: he describes trying to capture the childlike joy of creating, pushing the medium to the limits of control, in a relationship between subject, medium and self that keeps shifting.
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Current April 2026 reporting confirms the giant kookaburra marks Kooka’s new factory, while Kooka’s current first-party site gives the new factory address as 56–58 Racecourse Road.
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The Big Kookaburra is map-checked at Kooka’s Country Cookies, 56–58 Racecourse Road, Donald. The sculpture coordinate is an exact object pin, but a specific lawful visitor parking/arrival point at the factory has not yet been independently verified, so direct navigation remains withheld pending arrival confirmation.
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