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There public outcry in Australia over controversial plans to the Sydney Opera House as a "billboard" to a horse race. Tens of thousands of Australians have a petition to the plans to an advertisement for the Everest Cup onto the iconic white sails of the Opera House. The race is the richest horse race in the world. The decision to use the Opera House as a platform for the ad even the backing of Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison. He said: "It's not like they're it on there. I mean, it's lights flashing up there for a brief moment of time....I don't why we ourselves up in knots about these things."

The former chief executive of the Opera House the decision to the race on the world-famous landmark as "crass, inappropriate and offensive". He said: "I it extraordinary that the state politicians on both sides have somehow that this in the interests of Sydney, New South Wales or Australia to the way the Opera House works, to corrupt the art integrity of the building." The son of Peter Hall, the architect who complete the Opera House, said: "My father would have been by it....He would not have advertising on the building in any way. Lucky he's not around to the desecration of our beautiful, iconic masterpiece."