''I think Sydney is a little bit conservative"

So sayeth international photographer Spencer Tunick, about the difficulty he has had in finding Sydneysiders to bare all as part of his international series of nude crowds in internationally recognised locations.

It would be a shame if Australia doesn't step up and drop its drawers here. Most young Australian males are usually only too happy to moon a passer by from the window of a moving car, and of course we have a great tradition of strippers at the cricket. What's gone on?