Think having the relatives and their kids to stay for the week is a space invasion? Try sharing your 3-bedroom home with thirty other people, whom you'd probably never met before standing next to them in the bathroom queue.
The most recent in a series of raids by Brisbane City Council targeting residential overcrowding found 37 people living in a single house, posing serious health and fire safety issues.
Since July last year, Brisbane City Council has inspected more than 1000 homes and units, Brisbane Times reports, with around 180 notices issued for non-compliance with sanitation, planning and fire regulations. A further 179 amenity issues have been identified in just the past month.
In many of the cases, the residents involved were foreign students studying in Australia.
Apart from the health and safety risks and `spoiling the fun' for people visiting the country, individual fines for landlords can range up to $100,000 for non-compliance with standards.