Byron Bay being trashed

I wanted to share my latest installation with you all, made from artefacts I found scattered along the dunes near the Wreck on Monday morning (pictured above).

I was thinking of calling it Schoolies Go Home, until I found the plastic leftovers from a sushi and smoothie meal, complete with empty little plastic soy sauce fish.

Then I thought maybe I’d call it Filthy Pigs Like the Beach Too!  Anyway, I’m open to suggestions (1^st prize gets to keep the installation).

Although perhaps with the impending opening up of the whole town for rent¹, it won’t really matter.

The out-of-towner-tax-avoiding-double-gearers certainly won’t be dirtying their hands picking up their guests’ rubbish from our beaches.

And besides, all of our kids will have meaningful employment serving at fast food outlets and cleaning holiday flats.

Of course they’ll have to live in Casino because they certainly won’t be able to afford to live here.

But who cares, as long as there’s money to be made? Why let little things like the planning laws stand in your way?

That’s why I’m converting my house to an abattoir by day and a bordello by night.

I’ll use illegal immigrants, and they can work double shifts. Planning, environment, WHS, tax laws, who cares? No-one has the wherewithal to enforce these anyway.

And the rest of you can just stick it where the sun don’t shine in the interests of the economy!

1. The draft Short Term Holiday Accommodation Strategy submissions close Monday 22/12/2014, http://www.byron.nsw.gov.au/public-exhibition/2014/12/22/draft-short-term-holiday-accommodation-strategy-extended-to-22-december).

Marc Salmon, Byron Bay