A $7 million ‘giant emu’ sculpture is set to adorn the M12 dual carriage motorway approaching the new Western Sydney airport.

The proposed ‘Great Emu in the Sky: Constellation’ sculpture would be 30 metres tall, and is supposed to represent an Indigenous creation story, but has been variously described as looking like a tumbleweed or a platypus.

NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham told Ben Fordham the sculpture is barely recognisable either to passers-by or those flying into the airport.

“I’m not too sure [it] qualifies as art, and it certainly doesn’t justify the expenditure of $7 million of taxpayers’ funds.

“If you really want to do something for Indigenous people, do something about the hellholes in country NSW!

“If this is going to help a single Indigenous person, then I’m the Easter Bunny.”

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