Big Things were originally created as a marketing tourist trap, to encourage passing traffic to stop and spend some cash in the town or location where they are built. The Big Hat is recognition of a significant person in Australian history, Banjo Patterson.
Yeoval in New South Wales is the town Banjo Patterson lived during his early childhood years, on a property called Buckinbah. The hat resembles Banjo’s Akubra hat, built as a shelter above a picnic table at the Banjo Patterson Bush Park in Yeoval.