Bombshell in ‘Vote Yes’ death mystery: Reason man, 60, fell to his death from Piano Rock in Queensland

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A man who famously fell from a cliff was there to remove a ‘Yes’ mural painted ahead of the Voice referendum, Daily Mail Australia understands.

The 60-year-old slipped while climbing the bluff at Piano Rock, in Mount Tamborine, in the Gold Coast hinterland, at 4.05pm on Thursday.

Queensland paramedics were called to the Tamborine Mountain Road landmark where the man was found with serious head injuries. He was later confirmed dead at the scene.

Now Daily Mail Australia can reveal the man was at the scene to remove a heart-shaped Aboriginal flag next to the word ‘Yes’ painted on the rock two days earlier.

The Yes campaign love heart caused outrage in the local community, with some locals condemning the artwork online and calling on the artist to return and remove it on Facebook.

After the man’s death, social media users speculated that he was the Yes supporter who defaced the monument.

A ‘Yes’ mural was painted on Piano Rock, on Mount Tamborine in the Gold Coast hinterland, (pictured) in the days before the Voice referendum

Emergency services were photographed at the scene after the 60-year-old man died on Thursday

However, a long-time friend of the man has refuted these claims, revealing that his partner was just a member of the community who wanted the artwork gone.

“He was just there to clean,” the friend said. “(He) died because he didn’t want to see it (there).

“Hopefully someone will take it down.”

The rock, which is shaped like a piano, was painted in the shape of a musical instrument in 1966 by a member of the local community.

It has been maintained over the years by relatives within the artist’s family and has become a local icon.

Last week, just days before Australians took to the polls to vote on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, angry residents flocked online to complain after the site was vandalized on Tuesday.

While every state in Australia returned a ‘no’ result on Saturday evening, Queensland returned the Voice’s strongest rejection of any state or territory, with 68 per cent voting ‘no’.

“Piano rock… Mount Tamborine… an icon… defaced with ‘yes’… no need to deface things… people who do stuff like this are just idiots,” one person wrote.

The mural has since been painted over with white paint, causing further anger among locals

Another said: ‘Council should have removed it days ago. It caused problems with drivers slowing down to look.”

“It seems the idea of ​​destroying the constitution is not enough as vandals have attacked the Piano Rock on Mount Tamborine,” said a third.

The mural was painted over in the days after the man’s death.

However, the painting continues to cause problems, with locals complaining that the cover-up looks ‘fugly’ and ‘utterly awful’!

Councilor Jeff McConnell said the road is not under council management and the painting was removed by the Department of Main Roads and the Tamborine District Citizens Association.

He is currently in discussions with the community about permanent solutions to mask the mural.