Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Move over, Ian Thorpe. A well-upholstered 12-metre platypus is the new tourism torpedo. And Australia's image in Japan may never be ...

For Team Platypus, this will no doubt be twisted into proof that theirs is Australia's finest semi-aquatic, web-footed, plush toy in waiting. Team rakali are too devastated to comment at this time.