Unless you are a devoted follower of such matters, it’s dangerous to put too much faith in free online horoscopes, whose fearless predictions of health, prosperity and romance would be more believable if those same three words hadn’t appeared in reverse order last year, and been rearranged the year before that and the year before that.
After a bruising end to 2024, Copacabana’s newest resident, Anthony Albanese (a rabbit in Chinese zodiac terms), probably heard that his 2025 is set to be “a breakthrough year as things fall into place easily”, shrugged and returned to a scrum comprised of ALP strategists versed in the Dark Arts of Placating Disgruntled Voters Who Would Quite Like A Beach House Of Their Own Especially In An Election Year, Please And Thank You. Then Nine’s Today show called and had him declare open season on beach cabanas and – voila! – all was forgiven.
Position, position, position … competing cabanas at Bondi Beach.Credit: Brook Mitchell
Maybe the horoscope was right. If there’s one thing Australians hate more than a prime minister with a tin ear, it’s a shoreline with an obstructed view. Especially if that obstruction, which is less beach cabana and more beach kit home with optional fold-out table for aperitivo hour, was plonked there by some tattooed bogan blow-in from........