Flushed with excitement: Echuca’s public toilet facilities across town on the National Public Toilet Map, with the facilities at Echuca East Recreation Reserve highlighted for their amenities.
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The Great Dunny Hunt is back for another year, and the Continence Foundation of Australia is calling on all Australians to update the National Public Toilet Map website or app.
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With this year’s hunt running through to Sunday, June 16, users nationwide can update public toilet details, including adding photos of public restrooms or details of what amenities they have as well as their access hours.
The initiative aims to help the over five million Australians currently living with incontinence, with this number expected to grow to 6.5 million by 2030.
With many Australians travelling these Easter and school holidays, joining the Great Dunny Hunt will make a difference to those living with incontinence.
A recent survey of those living with incontinence discovered that 49 per cent of respondents don’t feel comfortable embarking on long trips without knowing where the first toilet stop will be.
Due to previous dunny hunts, the National Public Toilet Map now lists 23,000 public toilets, and that number is growing every day.
The Continence Foundation of Australia is offering the winner of the 2024 Great Dunny Hunt a $500 EFTPOS card, while three lucky winners who fill out a survey about how they use the website will also receive a $500 EFTPOS voucher.
Squeaky clean: Echuca East Recreation Reserve public toilets are a standout in town. Photo: Aidan Briggs
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“We’re inviting Australians to help find new ways to improve the National Public Toilet Map, developing a critical resource for many who experience incontinence,” Continence Foundation of Australia acting CEO Paula Hay said.
“We are very excited to find out how we can continue to provide greater support for the one in four Australians impacted by incontinence.”
Sean Burford, who won the title of Australia’s Greatest Dunny Hunter in 2022 by entering more than 130 dunnies on the National Public Toilet Map, continues to add to the map.
Mr Burford discussed the joy of continuing to add meaningful contributions to the map and how it had broadened his view of regional areas.
“The really rewarding aspect of the Great Dunny Hunt was discovering new locations in rural Australia,” he said.
“(Google Maps and caravanning websites) turned each latitudinal/longitudinal co-ordinate into a story about each place, whether it was the most scenic toilet in Australia or perhaps a prime example of why one state’s toilets were better than those just across the border on the same highway.”
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