Proposal to build $1.3m giant pear in Shepparton to celebrate history Victoria's Goulburn Valley is known as the food bowl of Australia, but it could soon be known as the home of the giant pear in a bid to attract tourists to the regional centre.

The fact that Shepparton is trying to become the 'Capital of Big Things' only solidifies the opinion that this town is perpetually stuck in the 1980's
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Green zone: Australian city of Shepparton to grow a huge pear

The three-storey fibreglass fruit is estimated to cost at least $1.3m but historian says regional city in the running to be the ‘capital of big things in Australia’ […]