For years, a controversial invader has been gradually taking over Australia's beloved beaches. Swallowing up the sand, ...

Tourism Australia's beach ambassador Brad Farmer believes the time has come for regulations amid a cabana takeover on ...

We might merely fantasise about giving them a sunscreen enema, but the prime minister was right to call out their bad manners ...

Now, the cabana craze means there's another battle ... "There is a balance between a free and open beach that everybody can use, and making sure that you're respectful." They offer no defence ...

It began on social media, when locals at Safety Beach on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne, began debating the use ...

Unlike beaches in many other countries, Australia’s are usually open to all ... entitled to use cabanas, he said, but he disagreed with them "reserving space on the beach and then going off ...

He said a feature of Australian beaches was being "free and open" to everyone ... people observing "beach etiquette". The Cancer Council said the growing use of cabanas was an encouraging ...

One argued, "people are the issue not cabanas." "I can see a law [being] drafted soon," said a user on X. One joked, "Because there are no bigger problems in Australia than Beach Etiquette." ...

Beach cabanas do, however, serve a valid purpose ... We can only achieve this goal together. Our website is open to any citizen journalists and organizations who want to contribute, publish ...

Australians are split over use of portable cabanas to reserve prime spots on the beach – a debate that taps into long-standing class tensions in the country regarding access to the coastline.

Others argue they are useful for sun protection. In the United States, some beach authorities have taken action to ban or restrict cabanas to prevent “beach spreading” although local councils ...