Byron nightmare

Given the efforts of council to persuade ratepayers to cough up a 12.5 per cent increase to cover the cost of this assault, it is clear that councillors and council staff hold the community in contempt.

Byron is not a 'green shire'. Money, greed and a complete inability of council to protect the natural assets and the beauty of this place will ensure its ultimate destruction.

As John Lewis says:

Byron shire has become one giant Mega-Festival of Greed and when one does the maths with ticket-prices, claimed punter-numbers, etc and compares that with the actual community contributions these hippy-capitalists make towards maintaining our local infrastructure it is millions of dollars in profit to cents 'contributed'.

Only about five per cent of our shire's population – the 'business elite' and their lackeys, actually benefit in any way at all from these festivals and their never-ending expansion. The rest of us stand in lines in shops or queue in service stations, banks, chemists, etc, and use overcrowded roads that are falling apart.

There are a lot of reasons why the mega-festivals in this shire should be restricted to two per year and capped at half their present numbers, not only because of this shire's traffic problems and lack of resources/services.

Though hundreds of millions of dollars have been made by these greedy organisations their contribution to the upkeep of our communities is monetarily pitiful and culturally very-negative.

The Baird government has rejected any attempt by Byron Council to impose a bed tax. What the hell, let the community pay the costs !