Big Dreamers

Once upon a time there was a quaint town in tropical north Queensland called Tully. Times were tough in the old town, and the villagers were feeling rather grim about it all. Ron Hunt, the quixotic and determined town elder was not going to see his town die, so he decided to build a tourist monument, proposing building The World's Biggest Gumboot in honour of Tully's Australian record rainfall of 7.98 metres in 1950.

Easier said than done, Ron hired the famous out-of-towner Bryan Newell to build the monument, which put local artist Roger Chandler's nose out of joint. Not only does the cost of the boot blow way out of hand, but the construction is endlessly delayed by ...rain. And after all the cost and hard work, will it actually save the town from financial devastation?