And not one mention of the Eco catastrophy of shark nets on beaches in this area, attempting to save idiots from themselves! The same idiots well described here no doubt. (a bit disappointing from an environmentalist).

But there is hope for sue yet, finally she realises the true nature of the greens.

Could I suggest to Byron residents, look to the example from a coastal resort town further south, (which all beach side towns in the Northern rivers of NSW are), where until the same brain dead rioted and burned police cars in the street, nothing was done.
Maybe a hint there for Sue!

So calling police on 000 gets no response? eh...
If all locals have broken roads and faece parks there are council elections. If there are 3million visitors then profits bring shops.
I'm working on sharks, um..

No. Can't have tourists ruining your paradise. If it wasn't for tourists, you would be living in grass huts, you wrinkly old fool. All environmentalists are selfish people who want to lock up bits of real estate for themselves. For mine, they are welcome to it. You need to be a deluded , leathery old hippy living in the past, to want inhabit such places.

" If it wasn't for tourists, you would be living in grass huts, you wrinkly old fool."
Look at Qld , they built potato sack humpies, eating sugarcane and green mangos in mosquito swamps as their skin hung off in shreds.
Jap and Chinese camera busloads saved the wretched moonlight state from 5th world poverty.

What pray (or prey) tell have any of the previous comments got to do with the contents of this reasonable enough essay?

Meanwhile all over the world both in cities, and country towns both large small, including the very rich green leafy suburbs of Melbourne such as Canterbury, Surrey Hills, Mont Albert, Balwyn, Brighton and Toorak too, people are in way or another fighting to save or preserve the relative quietness and cool leafiness of their suburbs from "outsiders" who want to demolish beautiful "old-fashioned" stately homes and mansions and replace them with soul-less monstrosities, especially of the fortress-like and treeless kind that the Chinese are building on these demolition bomb-sites.

And of course the ultimate expression of that desire are gated-"communities" which are very big in the USA and increasingly more so here in Australia.
Some such "communities" even prohibit the presence of children.

And of course another way that that is/was done in the USA is/was via the way in which "darkies" and "white trash" and Asians too were in one way or another excluded from buying into, or renting houses in whites only towns and suburbs via various local government regulations and of course of an unspoken but very real prejudice which was dramatized in all kinds of ways both in-your-face, and subtle too.

Byrons' a crappy place, so move, you, unlike billions of others around the world living in crappy places, have that option ... or you can expend an enormous amount of energy unsuccessfully trying to turn the tide. Move to Uki.