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“Because it is not, so far as I know, being seriously discussed and that’s because councils have made it clear they aren’t interested.”
If it’s the right way to handle the issue then it should be discussed and it is irrelevant to me as a taxpayer that the councils are stating that they are not interested. Councils are the right people to manage this and everyone, especially journalists, should make an effort to highlight that.
Executive committees are not capable or willing to own this responsibility and the outcome if they are will be very bad in many ways. Their involvement should be limited to reporting possible licencing violations to council. Council should have very little trouble in finding licence breakers. As your college at SMH, Sue Williams, (like me a Kings Cross local), wrote this week, the ATO will have access to all Airbnb records so it would be very easy to match addresses from Airbnb money taken with the addresses of short-term rental licences.