By Kelsey Wilkie For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 03:54 GMT, 15 February 2019 | Updated: 03:54 GMT, 15 February 2019
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When Kewal Shiels walks through the streets, people often stare.
The 30-year-old former car salesman from Victoria is hard to miss as he towers over every other person in the country.
Mr Shiels stands at 7ft 3ins or 223 centimetres - making him around the same size a female Asian elephant and officially the tallest man in Australia.
Kewal Shiels, 30, is the tallest man in Australia. Mr Shiels stands at seven foot-three or 223 centimetres - making him around the same size a female Asian elephant
Despite his height, people still talk about him like he's invisible.
He told Fairfax he would often hear strangers standing around guessing his height and taking bets on his shoe size.
He wears size 11 shoes, which is the same size as Ian Thorpe.
He has a custom-made bed that is stretched to eight-feet long to ensure a comfortable sleep.
By the age of 14, Mr Shiels was 6ft 9ins and working as a shelf-stacker at a supermarket.
Customers were always passing him while he worked, commenting about how he doesn't need a ladder or merely
