Big watermelon pips big peanut to become Australia’s next big thing

Queensland town of Chinchilla wins four-tonne melon structure as neighbouring Kingaroy vows to build giant nut anyway

A campaign to build a Big Peanut in Queensland has humbly accepted its loss to a Big Melon in a competition to find Australia’s next Big Thing.

The Queensland town of Kingaroy offered its congratulations to the nearby town of Chinchilla – known as the “melon capital of Australia” – after it became the proud owner of the four-tonne, nine metre-long watermelon on Wednesday.

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