CoolCabana proposal divides Australians | Daily Mail Online

There has been a tongue-in-cheek suggestion to solve the national ‘cabana crisis’ that even Anthony Albanese has thought of, but some are taking the idea very seriously.

Popular Instagram influencer Miss Double Bay, who has almost 64,000 followers, has shared what she calls the “solution to the cabana epidemic plaguing beaches” by pushing councils to limit tent-like shades to areas with meters.

Miss Double Bay suggested that councils should set up ‘Cabana Corners’.

“While I’m all for sun safety, I think we can all agree that these (cabanas) are ugly,” she said.

“Why, especially if you are a family of two, do you need an eight-seater (popular brand) CoolCabana?”

“People come to the beach to enjoy the sights and sounds of Mother Nature… not a weirdly patterned tent that looks like your grandmother’s couch.”

The solution where ‘everyone can move around’ according to the video is to have a ‘designated stretch of beach where the CoolCabanas can live’.

“This part would be at the back of the beach so no one could see it,” the influencer said.

The ‘Cabana Corners’ would be ‘pameter where you have to invest more money if you want to stay longer’.

To enforce this, a new type of parking inspector would have to be deployed.

“If we see a cabana that is not in the Cabana Corner, immediate fine, immediate fine and you will be asked to leave the beach,” she said.

She then went on to somewhat over-enthusiastically outline other cabana violations that could result in an “immediate fine.”

“I feel like the city is really on board with this because, as we all know, the city likes to issue fines,” she said.

The video ended with Miss Double Bay asking for help to write to the councils to submit her proposal.

The issue of Australian beaches covered in cabana shades has divided many Australians

The Missdoublebay Instagram account and other social media were created by Sydney-based marketing and social media manager Claudia Bursill

But many Aussies were unimpressed by her bold solution.

“Negative… I will hang it where my family sees fit for safety in the sun,” someone replied.

“Really go back to Double Bay love,” was another disgruntled response.

A third added: ‘Okay, your solution is colonization and surveillance of public space.’

“They don’t need more income for the municipality,” said another.

A fourth said: ‘Sounds like an elite eastern suburbs solution that just involves taxing western Sydney.’

But others praised her idea.

One said: ‘I think it’s a great idea but I wish they had better prints, they’re so ugly. I think you almost have the right idea.

‘The cabanas are at the back of the beach, no tents at the front of the beach near the water.’

The issue of cabana-filled beaches has even prompted comment from the Prime Minister.

On Nine’s Today show, Mr Albanese was asked about people setting out cabanas early in the morning to claim a spot on the beach and reserving it all day long, even if they are elsewhere.

“That’s not right… to think that you can reserve a spot that’s just for you,” Mr. Albanese replied.

‘One of the great things about Australia, unlike some parts of the world where you go and have to pay to go to the beach. Here, everyone owns the beach,” Albanese said.

‘It’s a place where every Australian is equal. And that’s actually a violation of that principle, if you think you can reserve a spot for yourself.”

Sunrise presenters Jayne Azzopardi and Alex Cullen branded the behavior ‘un-Australian’ and boldly called on the Prime Minister to legislate against the practice.

“Well, maybe,” he replied.