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Public toilet expert creates blueprint for how Australia can improve loo management
Australia’s 19,000 public toilets are built and managed by councils, private property owners and developers, but one loo expert believes they should be managed by a single government entity instead.
Key points:
- A Queensland researcher has developed a set of principles to guide public toilet design
- A Churchill Fellowship grant allowed Katherine Webber to study public loo design globally
- Her findings have now been shared with policy-makers in Canberra
Social planning researcher Katherine Webber last week spent time in Canberra telling federal policy-makers how the nation’s public toilets could — and should – be better.
The Churchill Fellowship recipient said her 2018 grant allowed her to embark on a global tour to study how other countries…
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