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.

Albanese condemned the practice when asked about it on Channel Nine’s Today show.

I’m pro-cabana. Australia receives about 58 petajoules of solar radiation every year – more than any other country on Earth. As a kid of the 80s, my childhood was a series of lectures about the importance of slip, slop, slap and collective terror at the disappearing ozone layer. A beach cabana offers full-coverage, portable and attractive........

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