Aussies have been called out for resorting to a bizarre measure to reserve a spot on the beach by securing public gazebos with glad wraps.
Signs have been placed along Cliff Road in North Wollongong warning beachgoers not to claim the facilities by packing them in.
“This is a shared public space,” they read.
‘The use of cling film or other materials to enclose picnic shelters is prohibited.’
Wollongong Mayor Tania Brown said she was disappointed the council had to go so far in installing the signs.
Council rangers had been instructed to ‘remove’ the packaging if they found it, she said news.com.au.
It comes after NSW Premier Chris Minns set bold new ‘rules’ on the use of portable gazebos on Australia’s main beaches.
The national debate centers on the use of cabanas to reserve spots on the coastline – a practice deemed ‘un-Australian’.
The signs along Cliff Road warned beachgoers not to lay claim to the beachside gazebos by wrapping a happy wrapper around them
Wollongong Mayor Tania Brown said she was disappointed the council had to go as far as installing signs around the gazebos
“You can’t like stick a peg in the ground and claim the land is yours with the cabana, like Richard Nixon did with the moon,” Minns said Thursday.
‘It doesn’t work that way. You can’t just put up a cabana and lay claim to it.’
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has also dipped his toe in the cabana waters.
During an appearance on Today, Mr Albanese said the practice was “out of order” and contrary to the country’s egalitarian spirit.