

ASTRA RAISES $40,000 TO COMBAT BYRON SHIRE MAYOR ‘THREAT’
The Chair of the Australian Short-Term Rental Association (ASTRA) wrote recently (19/8) to his members. (ASTRA’s Chairman, Rob Jeffress, has somewhere in the vicinity of 580 homes listed as holiday rentals – this figure fluctuates constantly): “…in Byron Bay, owners and operators are under attack with the local Mayor determined to ignore state planning rules and move forward with public exhibition to impose a 90 night cap on short term rentals. As you can imagine, this would