I'll be ringing my local councillor tomorrow to suggest the same action is taken here in Cairns.

Bring it on if the caravaners done the same thing they would be fined.

 

 

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Yep, I'm with the council. Rate payers have their rights too, including the right to a clean respectable environment. Remember that 'Keep Australia Beautiful' slogan? Makes sense to me.

If you go to Tassie there is plenty of free/cheap camping spots close to water and also close to c/ps . If I were young again I would travel this great land in a simular vehicle to a wizbang. I don't blame them for staying where they do, You cant change the style of traveling but if the shires supplied a cheap/free camping area next to a beach or water then the problem would go away overnight. As for the rubbish, let me asure you that there are pigs from all area of society and the cheap campers are not the worst offenders.
cheers
blaze

Have witnessed gross & plain thoughtless selfish behaviour all over our great island - usually the "light weight, cheap hire car mob who want to park within a metre because they are fearful of our open spaces" group of tourists. Then again we have witnessed the big tour bus mob which pulled up for lunch at a road side rest area between Kings Canyon and Yulara with the driver saying loudly that ladies to the left and gents to the right over the other side of the sand hill as he proceeded to set up the big BBQ and cook up the spread. Over the sand hill was a the biggest field of paper daisies we have ever seen and spread across the whole swale and for hundreds of metres each way along the swale! That was in July 1995.
Individual car behaviour ranges from washing breakfast dishes under the water tank tap left on for the washing duration in a rest area in the dry centre of our great island, through to the public nudity the people think can be practised here 'coz they claim they can do it in Europe, and so on.
We have spoken to the tour guides of one USA tour group who asked us to carry out our threat to inform the USA Embassy when we got home as the guide was fed up with the group ignoring his requests. We did so and were assured that it would be tracked down and the persons (whole group) would have their documents duly marked with words to the effect that they would NOT be approved for overseas travel again! Who knows if they did or not!
When we complained to the German embassy re the public nudity and antics, we were duly ignored!
Anecdotal evidence is even more far reaching and gross than these experiences we have related here.
We just make sure we "leave no trace" and speak up where and when we can mindful that some of our friends/aquaintences have been threatened with physical violence for wanting to protect our country side!

Yes! There may well be Very Good Cause for moving folks along!

Cheers Ian & Sally aka Mobi Condo

Biggles mentioned on a thread about the huge number of RV's on the road this year and they are increasing as time goes by.  Same goes for backpacker vehicles, there numbers are increasing as the word spreads overseas and Australia becomes a popular and in general a safer destination for them, and I believe it is going to get worse for everyone, during peak season the towns have trouble coping with the influx.

And when we say Councils should provide more free camping etc, it falls back on their ratepayers in towns to pay for these facilities which is a financial burden particularly on small populations at the expense of other services and facilities needed in a town.  I have pointed out before about these young overseas tourists paying very high hiring fees for station wagons, campervans, motorhomes etc, with the daily hire rate being higher than overnight fees for caravan parks in an area, so it is only natural they are going to try to find free camping to reduce their traveling costs.  Some do need education on not trashing our environment and from what I have seen seem to be the main offenders, however our home grown tourists should know better.  Day long distance trippers in cars seem to contribute to a lot of the "bush confetti" and rubbish left at roadside stops as well.

Several weeks ago I was travelling behind a wicked van that was passing a roadside stop with rubbish bins plainly visible, and the passenger threw two presumably empty iced coffee cartons out the window.  Maybe hire companies should give them a printed sheet on protocols to follow in Australia on the road.