The Continence Foundation of Australia is asking for submissions to find Australia’s best public toilets as part of this year’s much-loved Great Dunny Hunt.
Taken for granted by many, awareness and access to quality public toilets is a huge consideration for those living with incontinence who may find it difficult to leave their home for everyday activities due to the fear of not having access to appropriate facilities.
For this year’s hunt, Australians are being asked to take pictures of their favourite public dunny and upload them to the National Public Toilet Map (NPTM) website or app, as well as update any public toilet facilities.
The general public are encouraged to upload their pictures to go into the running to find the best public Aussie toilets from Monday 3 April to World Continence Week, which will be held from Monday 19 June, 2023.
Pics will be judged to find the best public Aussie toilets with honourable mention awards given to the most colourful dunny and the dunny in the most unusual location.
Among the judging panel of public toilet experts will be Sean Burford who won the title of Australia’s Greatest Dunny Hunter in 2022 by entering over 129 dunnies on The National Public Toilet Map.
‘The really rewarding aspect of the Great Dunny Hunt was discovering new locations in rural Australia,’ Mr Burford said.
‘Both toiletmap and other sources have some misplaced or out of date dunnies, so once I had a location I would research it to determine whether there was really a dunny there or not.
‘My first stops to validate a dunny were Google Maps and Bing Maps, which differ in freshness and resolution across Australia so I used both.’
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