Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has criticized the practice of reserving sections of beach with personal belongings, calling it 'not on' and a breach of principle.
Unless you are a devoted follower of such matters, it’s dangerous to put too much faith in free online horoscopes, whose fearless predictions of health, prosperity and romance would be more believable if those same three words hadn’t appeared in reverse order last year, and been rearranged the year before that and the year before that.
After a bruising end to 2024, Copacabana’s newest resident, Anthony Albanese (a rabbit in Chinese zodiac terms), probably heard that his 2025 is set to be “a breakthrough year as things fall into place easily”, shrugged and returned to a scrum comprised of ALP strategists versed in the Dark Arts of Placating Disgruntled Voters Who Would Quite Like A Beach House Of Their Own Especially In An Election Year, Please And Thank You. Then Nine’sMaybe the horoscope was right. If there’s one thing Australians hate more than a prime minister with a tin ear, it’s a shoreline with an obstructed view. Especially if that obstruction, which is less beach cabana and more beach kit home with optional fold-out table for aperitivo hour, was plonked there by some tattooed bogan blow-in from Wherever, who erected it at ungodly o’clock before promptly dashing off to Fitness First to smash out 80 clicks on the stationary bike he/she reserved with a hand towel at half past get serious. In cities as relentlessly obsessed with real estate as Sydney and Melbourne, such practices are frowned upon but strangely tolerated. While its neighbours probably spent the morning giving the unoccupied cabana the stink eye, nothing actually happens when its owners finally roll in at 11am, all drink coolers and portable speakers and weird swimmers in the process of being eaten by the backsides they’re supposed to be covering. On Tuesday, Albanese decried the practice of sand-bagsing as “not on”, adding that the beach is “a place where every Australian is equal. And that’s a breach of principle, really, to think that you can reserve a little spot as just your
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