Difference between airport, airfield and aerodrome
Up in central Qld it makes no difference what you call it. The brain dead morons that run most of the local government councils hate all aircraft.
They do their best to kill GA. If they can't kill it they do their best to bleed it dry.
If you buy a car and park it at home - no problem and they don't require a Material Change of Use to be carried out on your property. They don't declare it to be a commercial car yard. They even let other car owners visit you.
If you buy a caravan they don't declare your property a Caravan Park thus avoiding MCUs, council permits and massive Contributions to Headworks charges.
The same applies if you buy motor bikes for the kids or indeed Jet Skis for fun in your dam.
BUT buy an aircraft , and try to put a an airstrip (fully CASA approved ) on your own rural property and all hell breaks loose. $20,000 to $100,000 for the MCU and ditto for the Headworks Contribution. And then you still have the problem of obtaining Council approval.
Years of time wasted working out they just don't want small aeroplanes normally results in the applicant giving up an moving to a more aircraft friendly shire.
Maybe one of the pilot groups (AOPA?) should compile a list of user unfriendly councils in order to save aspiring home airstrip owners a lot of grief. Better still collect all the Barnaby type information on the anti aircraft councilors and use it wisely during the next council election campaign.