How long can you hold on? Politicians are often accused of being full of it, which would have made the long queues at Parliament House this morning all the harder to bear.
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A queue of about 250 people was expected to line up to use this giant toilet on the lawns of Parliament House today, aiming to draw attention to global poverty and sanitation.
About 25 politicians were also expected to take part in the event, including ACT Labor Senator Kate Lundy and Independent MP Rob Oakeshott.
Organisers of the event, Voices for Justice, hope to highlight the link between access to sanitation and preventable deaths amongst the world's most poor.
Speaking with AAP, national coordinator John Beckett said more than two million children could be saved by having access to a toilet.
"No-one should be dying for a dunny," Mr Beckett said.
The group is in Canberra at the moment campaigning for its Micah Challenge, which aims to halve global poverty by 2015. They are asking the government to increase its aid allocation for water and sanitation to $500 million by 2015, and have been holding a series of private lobbying meetings with federal politicians.
The group is led by a group of Christian church leaders, and includes students, teachers, retirees and aid workers.
