Council's Plan For Parking Meters At Maroubra To Go As Well As The Last Three Times They Tried It

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The last free public spaces in Sydney are once again under threat of engineered gentrification, as the property speculators who make up the local council announce plans to charge people for visiting the beach.

However, as history has shown, no amount of political jargon can convince the residents of Maroubra that charging and fining young families for a day trip is good for local businesses or beneficial to local residents.

Plans are currently underway to begin installing paid parking meters at beaches including Clovelly, Coogee, Maroubra, La Perouse, Little Bay, Malabar and Yarra Bay.

Residents of the council area would be given one permit per household to exempt them from the parking meter, which means everyone else in the household will have to pay?

This is just the most recent effort in Randwick Council's decades long mission to unsuccesfully turn Rabbitohs country into the new Bondi

While a small cohort of residents vocally support the plan, the old school residents are under no illusions that those in favour are clearly in the business of flipping properties - which is greatly aided by the social cleansing of lively coastal communities.

The council has hinted at the fact that the money accrued from this shameless cash grab will help pay for the maintenance of the beaches, which are currently maintained pretty well off the back of land rates, which will definitely not be going down.

However, as the debate rages, the final result is irrelevant - as the good people of Sydney's last working class surf communities have already gone through this before.

It is widely assumed, in fact, it is genuinely expected that in the event of council installing parking meters at Maroubra and Malabar beach... They will soon have to return to do the same thing again.

And then do it again. And again. Until they inevitably give up.

Because, as it became clear the last three times they have tried to do this - the money made from paid parking is nowhere near enough to cover the costs of constantly replacing the parking meters that have been destroyed by bricks, crowbars and expanding foam.

The council has insisted that this time will be different, due to the new addition of CCTV cameras along South Sydney's coastal parades.

This ambitious new culture of surveillance, however, does not take into account the abundance of local young fellas wearing balaclavas on hotted up e-bikes.