Agree with all of this.
Coincidentally, I am just noodling over a column about how by-laws that wouldn’t stand up to a challenge at NCAT can work in other ways to signal more clearly the “culture” of the community.
Illegally parked cars will be towed at the owners’ expense, noisy residents will have swimming pool keys deactivated, people who don’t separate their rubbish will be photographed and named and shamed …
None of these would survive a challenge at NCAT (apart from maybe the last one) but they might make residents stop and think.