Dog on the Tuckerbox

The Dog on the Tuckerbox is an Australian historical monument and tourist attraction, located at Snake Gully, approximately eight kilometres from Gundagai, New South Wales as described in the song of the same name.

[1][2][3] That poem was generally considered rude and vulgar, although still less so than popularly sung versions, where the dog shat in instead of sat on the tucker-box.

[12] The Dog on the Tuckerbox monument was erected in 1932 as part of 'Back to Gundagai' week, and a large crowd "gathered to her again" to witness the unveiling by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons on 28 November 1932.

Copyright on the monument was vested in the Gundagai Hospital, who for many years received a useful income from receipt of royalties from firms using the iconic image.

[18] A more deliberate piece of vandalism was perpetrated a few months after its unveiling in 1933, when the name of Prime Minister Lyons was chiselled away from the base of the monument, presumably as a political act.