locals are protesting the filming of a reality television series that some fear will damage the reputation of their trendy tourist town.
“It’s potentially going to threaten businesses if the portrayal of Byron is as absurd as I guess a lot of the doco-soap-reality shows are,” Byron Shire Mayor Simon Richardson told the ABC. “They’re proposing to drag our name through the mud and make millions of dollars without offering anything back to the community and completely misrepresenting who we are and it’s totally wrong,” Mr Gordon told 9News at the Main Beach protest.“There was no consultation whatsoever. They just came in unannounced,” Mr Gordon added.
The town of 9,000 people is one of the most famous in Australia, partly because acting couple Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky have built a mansion there.
Lol they clearly don't know their town. It has 2 demographics, feral backpackers and the nouveau riche.
Half the people protesting only arrived in Byron in the last 2-5 years increasing the population.. they’re all wanna be hipsters..
LoL trendy! If by junkies and dole bludging, pot smoking losers who refuse to work they mean trendy then hahaha fk em
Trendy? Have you visited there recently?
White Sepremecy
They're worried the film crews might find the HUGE weed plantation they've got going on.
They do realise they are actually promoting it to the world!
Byron Bay blues.
Probably the same people that got blues festival canceled
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