Concrete Aboriginal
A Concrete Aboriginal, also known as a Neville, is a lawn ornament once common in Australia. The ornament is a concrete statue depicting an Australian aborigine, generally carrying a spear and often standing on one leg. The statues were once common in Australia but rarely seen since the 1980s.
The fashion for keeping a concrete aboriginal in the garden was satirised in the Australian 1980s situation comedy Kingswood Country, where the lead character, a racist buffoon, referred to his concrete aboriginal as "Neville". The name "Neville" was thought to be a reference to Neville Bonner, the first Aborigine to sit in the Parliament of Australia.
