Statue deconstruction is becoming the Anglosphere’s most popular artistic genre. So why are our local avant-garde artists lagging behind? Sculpture vultures, like the desert variety, should leave no survivors. Our cities should be a vista of empty plinths but, no, to our shame all those racists, rapists, homophobes, slave-traders, colonialist exploiters, domestic-violence perpetrators, anti-Islamists and other assorted oppressors still stand tall in our streets and parks in the sculpted persons of inter alia Matthew Flinders, Burke and Wills, Queen Victoria, Henry Lawson and Simpson and his donkey.