Ms Kyle also cites a supposed triumph of reactionary community snobbery over the the honourable humanitarianism of Ivar and Tanya Hunt for the rejection of their planning application by COGB council.

Her erroneous claims can swiftly and easily be be refuted by the public notice which has, for months, been on prominent public display at the New Victoria Hotel.

The Hunts’ notice reads as follows: “We are currently seeking planning approval to renovate and convert these premises into hotel style accommodation and bar to complement the existing bottle shop”.

It has been all too easy for the Hunts and their backers, such as Ms Kyle, to insultingly and self-righteously dismiss their community opponents as “not in my backyard” elites, while ignoring the fact that emergency or crisis accommodation is not, and should never be, a poorly regulated business opportunity.

Ms Kyle’s assertion, too, that opponents of this proposed development are nothing but a “noisy minority” needs to be challenged.

I am a long-term Eaglehawk resident, and my experience is that of informed, thoughtfully social justice-based majority community opposition to an inherently exploitative substitute for appropriately situated, modern, safe and purpose-built low-cost accommodation, within our community.