Typical ass backwards Oz insanity.
Any bigish town, not a Capital City, who doesn't build or upgrade a strip suitable for at least bizjet/regional FAR25 ops with stand by lights, PAPI and Minimum VOR/DME approach and operates it for free is nuts.
It's the best way I know how to get people to avoid coming to your burg to buy fuel, spend money, stay the night, eat at the restaurants and generally contemplate maybe transferring the Head Office to a bucolic atmosphere.
The whole aviation user pays routine was and still is nuts. It is, in this country, as stupid as charging for the air we breathe, for looking at the Sydney Harbour Bridge, or singing Waltzing Matilda.
But that doesn't mean that I support the would be Scoutmasters, me no speakum, hearum or try to seeum routine.