Gap Fill - Sydney Opera House - Level 5

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The in Australia is angry over plans to use the Sydney Opera House as a "billboard". Tens of thousands of people signed a to block plans to an advertisement for the Everest Cup horse race onto the sails of the Opera House. The race is the in the world. The to use the Opera House for the ad has the support of Australia's Prime Minister. He said: "It's not like they're painting it on ....It's lights flashing up there for a moment of time....I don’t understand why we tie ourselves up in about these things."

The chief of the Opera House said the to advertise on the world-famous landmark was "inappropriate and ". He said: "I find it ...politicians...have somehow decided that this is in the interests of Sydney...or Australia to corrupt the...art of the building." The son of Peter Hall, the who helped complete the Opera House, said: "My father would have been sickened by it....He would not have condoned on the building in any . Lucky he's not around to see the of our beautiful, iconic ."

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