The "Aboriginal" lawn ornaments were once common in Australia but rarely seen since when?

The concrete ''Aboriginal'' or ''Neville'' was a lawn ornament in Australia. This was depicting the Australian ''Aborigine'', generally carrying a spear and often standing on one leg. These type of statues were once common in Australia but rarely seen since the 1980s.

According to Gregor Stronach, the concrete ''Aborigine'' was a symbol of a much simpler time; an Australia that was as unashamedly kitsch as it was unaware of the cultural and political significance of something that was so brutally offensive by today's standards. The fashion for keeping a concrete ''Aboriginal'' in the garden was satirised in the Australian 1980s situation comedy ''Kingswood country'' (screened from 1980 to 1984), where the lead character, a racist Buffon, referred to his concrete ''Aboriginal'' as ''Neville''. The name ''Neville'' was thought to be reference to Neville Thomas Bonner (28 March 1922 - 5 February 1999), the first Aborigine to sit in the Parliament of Australia.

The Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands. The definition of the term ''Aboriginal'' has over time and place, with the importance of lineage, self-identification, and community acceptance, all being of varying importance.