Once upon a time there was a tiny sugar town in tropical north Queensland called Tully. Tully was a very prosperous town until one day Brazil decided to dump its sugar stockpile on the global market. The townsfolk called a meeting to save the town from financial disaster. One man stood up and proposed building The World’s Biggest Gumboot in honour of Tully’s Australian record rainfall of 7.98 metres in 1950.

Ron Hunt, the quixotic and determined town elder 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?

Only time will tell.