"Can a giant toilet save a dying country town?"
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That is the question documentary makers asked when they recorded Dunedoo's attempt to build a bizarre tourist attraction - a big dunny.
The town will be in the spotlight tonight when the ABC airs the program A Loo with a View - a documentary promising to tell the story of a two-year "battle to build The Big Dunny".
Dunedoo District Development Group (DDDG) pushed a proposal to build the attraction, complete with five-star toilets, a gift shop, tourist information centre, viewing platform and radio station.
"You've got to agree it is tacky, but if it attracts attention and we don't have to go out and advertise, we'll use it," DDDG president Sue Stoddart said, according to the film makers.
However as preliminary plans were drawn up, the proposal faced opposition from within the town, with some locals believing the idea promoted their town as a toilet.
A feasibility study was launched to see if it would be viable, however it was found the dunny was would not attract enough visitors.
The project has not gone ahead.
The documentary is billed as mixing "pathos and humour" in a "look at a declining country town as it struggles to resuscitate itself".
The story of Dunedoo's proposal already received interstate coverage last Thursday when Melbourne's The Age newspaper told its story and previewed the documentary.
Loo with a View was written by Hadass Segel, who first heard about the town's proposal on radio.
The file has been nominated for an Australian Writer's Guild award, and is part of a six-part ABC series about "ordinary people overcoming significant odds to realise their goals".
It screens at 8pm.