WARRNAMBOOL council candidate Michael McCluskey says the city should be doing more to capitalise on the tourism potential of the Oddball movie about the Maremma dog that protected Warrnambool’s penguins.
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He has proposed a life-sized sculpture of a Maremma dog, similar to the one at Dampier in Western Australia that celebrates Red Dog, the canine star of another movie.
He said the sculpture could be accompanied by sculptures of penguins and the foxes that preyed upon them in a setting on top of the domes of the former aquarium tanks near the Warrnambool breakwater.
Warrnambool artist Tim Walker took a more light-hearted approach in 2010 to celebrating the Maremmas, suggesting a sculpture large enough to arch over the westbound lanes of Raglan Parade near the Homemaker Centre.
