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The rest of Australia has come out in support of Queensland’s school leavers this week, as the kids face community backlash for their attempts to celebrate the conclusion of grade 12 on a beach.
The popular Sunshine Coast holiday town was closed for cleaning and safety on Monday after scores of school-leavers trashed its sands.
Locals have been quick to take to their noisy Facebook groups to complain about these young people celebrating a significant milestone in their lives, after finishing one of the most ordinary senior years in recent history.
For Australia’s schoolies – 2020 has seen the postponed and forfeiture of school formals, representative sport and crucial academic exams.
As they now stare down the barrel of entering ‘the real world’ with no overseas travel on the horizon and a very limited job market – a beach party at Noosa seems like the least we could give them.
It’s for this reason that the rest of Australia has told these whingeing old toffs to shut the fuck up and cut the kids some slack.
However, the white-linen brigade remain as vocal as ever, as images emerge of a heaving gathering showed hundreds of kids packing the beach to party.
Broken glass and rubbish lay strewn across Noosa’s Main Beach, with sections of the sand taped-off and Nippers cancelled.
“It’s not good enough!” wrote one local, Meredith Toorak (49), on the controversial NOOSA – BUY, SWAP & SNITCH Facebook group.
“I did not flout border restrictions back in July so that I could relocate from Melbourne to the beach house, only to have to put up with this riff raff!”
Another whinger, Bruce Prahan (66) has also piped up.
“These kids needs to understand that having fun and making noise is something reserved for discos and house parties”
“Whenever it is that they are allowed to do that again”
