On the map: Rochester’s public toilet facilities on the National Public Toilet Map website with the new Rochester Rotary Park facility highlighted for their amenities.
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The Great Dunny Hunt is back for another year and the Continence Foundation of Australia is calling on all Australians to update the National Public Toilet Map website or app.
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With this year’s hunt running from Friday, March 29, to Sunday, June 16, users nationwide can update public toilet details, including adding photos of public restrooms or details of what amenities they have as well as their access hours.
The initiative aims to help the more than five million Australians currently living with incontinence, with this number expected to grow to 6.5 million by 2030.
With many Australians travelling these school holidays, joining the Great Dunny Hunt will make a difference to those living with incontinence.
A recent survey of those living with incontinence discovered that 49 per cent of respondents currently did not feel comfortable embarking on long trips without knowing where the first toilet stop would be.
Due to previous dunny hunts, the National Public Toilet Map now lists 23,000 public toilets, and that number is growing every day.
The Continence Foundation Australia is offering the winner of the 2024 Dunny Hunt a $500 EFTPOS card and three lucky winners who fill out a survey about how they use the website will also receive a $500 EFTPOS voucher.
Pick of the bunch: Rochester Lions Park has been added to the National Public Toilet Map for its range of facilities. Photo: Aidan Briggs
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“We’re inviting Australians to help find new ways to improve the National Public Toilet Map, developing a critical resource for many who experience incontinence,” Continence Foundation of Australia acting chief executive officer Paula Hay said.
“We are very excited to find out how we can continue to provide greater support for the one in four Australians impacted by incontinence.”
Sean Burford, who won the title of Australia’s Greatest Dunny Hunter in 2022 by entering more than 130 dunnies on The National Public Toilet Map, continues to add to the map.
Mr Burford said adding meaningful contributions to the map had broadened his view of regional areas.
“The really rewarding aspect of the Great Dunny Hunt was discovering new locations in rural Australia,” he said.
“(Google Maps and caravanning websites) turned each lat/long co-ordinate into a story about each place, whether it was the most scenic toilet in Australia or perhaps a prime example of why one state’s toilets were better than those just across the border on the same highway.”
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