A Concrete Aboriginal, also known as a Neville, is a

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once common in Australia. The ornament is a concrete statue depicting an

Aboriginal Australian Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the T ...

, generally carrying a spear and often standing on one leg. The statues were once common in Australia but rarely seen since the 1980s. The fashion for keeping a concrete Aboriginal in the garden was satirised in the Australian 1980s

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'' Kingswood Country'', where the lead character referred to his concrete Aboriginal as "Neville". The name "Neville" was thought to be a reference to Neville Bonner, the first Aboriginal Australian to sit in the

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