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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Anna Spargo-Ryan

Staking claim to a patch of sand with your beach cabana might be the most Australian thing of all

Cabanas on Bondi Beach. The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said the use of portable cabanas to claim a patch of sand was ‘not on’
Cabanas on Bondi Beach. The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said the use of portable cabana to claim a patch of sand was ‘not on’. Photograph: Martin Berry/Alamy

Anthony Albanese is up in arms over some absolutely un-Australian behaviour he’s seen on a Facebook group. People, he’s discovered, own beach cabanas.

This is not a problem in itself but, according to reports made by the News Corp papers, brightly coloured bits of tarp are being hammered into the God-given sand and then – get this – no one even sits there. They just leave again. Sometimes they’re actually saving a bit of beach for later on. Allegedly.

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