How YOU are paying $7MILLION to build a giant emu sculpture over a highway
How YOU are paying $7MILLION to build a giant emu sculpture over a highway $7 million of taxpayer money is in consultation to build a statue on the new M12 One Nation MP Mark Latham said the statue doesn't justify this kind of spending Mr Latham said the statue would not be helping a 'single Indigenous person' Mr Latham argued the money is better spent helping Indigenous communities
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A giant emu statue that will cost taxpayers $7 million is planned to be built on the new M12 motorway in Sydney's west.
The $12 billion dual carriage highway is being built towards the city's new Badgerys Creek Airport.
One Nation MP Mark Latham has fired up over taxpayers' money being used for a project like this, and said the funding could be better used in Indigenous communities.
The proposed statue will be about 30-metres tall and is slated to represent an Aboriginal creation story.
The emu statue looks like a giant tumble weed, according to One Nation MP Mark Latham
Artist Tim Storrier told the Daily Telegraph the statue is a 'rather impressive and delicate work of art'.
However, Mr Latham told the Daily Telegraph the statue
