From McLoughlins Beach

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"The current mayor of McLoughlins Beach is Elijah Kerrison-Male. He was popular among residents for his policies which involved building a 'wall' to keep the sharks out of the bay, as well as erecting new fencing around the houses of residents whom he viewed as unfavourable and unsightly. On the 10th of October, he deemed local elections to be 'undemocratic', thus concreting his place as the beach's effective dictator. Alongside his pug, Harry, Kerrison-Male rules the shores. His residents are very grateful, it can be assured. Kerrison-Male has strong ties with Seamus Doyle, Mayor of Jack River, and Jackson O' Loughlin, lab rat activist and longtime husband of 80's arcade game, 'Crazy Balloon'." 

Wiki entry, 3rd paragraph (reference free of course) for McLoughlins Beach, Victoria - as at Nov 3rd 2018.  Nailed it, with a little Googling, as a local schoolboy prank - actually a schoolgirl prank, it seems.

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Around McLoughlins Beach, prankster winds
blow their Wiki entries in to lodge
in satirical cracks;
the great egret sidles its white advertisement
into green grey reeds;

and we staff-wielding wizards,
propping our age with fun,
discuss the board meetings of eucalypts -
and whether Rap-Musical would be the best medium.

The coastal bush is a thin fringe
full of gums festooned with
curling ribbon bark: -

'And watch for snakes'.

The sea's wind-frilled and the sand's blown down
in that same mottled pattern foam displays
when its space expands in a sheet of swash.

Euphoria of great fractal dishevelment,
which has yet, somehow, since 1920,
tidied away the GunaiKurnai.

Sea-urchins and coral remain.



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