Which ACT legends should get statues?

Should we be honouring soup lady Stasia Dabrowski (top left)?

Capturing in bronze the flying dreadlocks of Brumbies legend George Smith (centre)?

Having Birdman Rally winner George Reekie (bottom left) permanently charging down the runway to take on Lake Burley Griffin in his famous fibreglass and foam glider?

Perhaps Canberra paediatrician and Senior Australian of the Year Dr Sue Packham (top right), surrounded by the children she has served for nearly 50 years?

Should we be remembering in perptuity Chris the overgrown sheep or Lucky the koala, from the 2003 bushfires, two animals that have captured the hearts of Canberrans?

Should one of Canberra's great developers and philanthropists, Terry Snow, get his own statue after bankrolling plenty of public art at the airport?

And where are our statues of Canberra's designer Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin?

There is a privately-commissioned mural of the dynamic planning duo on a residential development in Kingston, but no official statue.

The $500,000 statue of McEwen, the 18^th Australian prime minister for 23 days over the summer of 1967-68 following the disappearance of Harold Holt, has been approved by the Federal Government.

The cost includes installing the statue and some added touches such as bench seats.

The McEwen statue is very much in the realm of the National Capital Authority but what does local body artsACT have to say about a statue of one of our local heroes or one of the defining symbols of Canberra to be positioned somewhere outside the Parliamentary Triangle?

Someone or something that strikes a chord with Canberrans, displayed at a location where more than the occasional Canberran ventures? Its director was unavailable for comment on Wednesday.

It remains to be seen the current, coronavirus-battered economy, where art and statues rate.

artsACT, hasn't commissioned a piece of public art since 2018, when it replaced a damaged statue at the Hughes shops. We might be waiting a long time for our local heroes to be honoured in bronze.