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‘Everyone owns the beach’: Australian PM throws shade in cabana debate (www.theguardian.com)

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The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has weighed in on a drama unfolding on the country’s beaches, declaring that beachgoers who use portable cabanas to claim a patch of sand are going against the nation’s spirit of equality.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Understandable. It’s rude behavior. The problem will be enforcing rules against it. On a super crowded beach, who's going to monitor and check every cabana for current occupancy? Even if someone was willing to pay someone to do it, it wouldn’t be worth the fights with drunken assholes.