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The ‘big penis’ has been torn down: how Newcastle changed in 25 years since the Knights’ last NRL title
The Guardian Australia
September 30, 2026
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<p>The first wave of Knights successes came with a backdrop of uncertainty about what a post-industrial future might mean for the steel city</p><p>More than 80,000 people saw the musician Daniel Arvidson sing about Newcastle’s “big penis” at the city’s foreshore in October 2001.<
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