It sounds like the plot from a movie, but two men are among a handful of Queenslanders who have successfully taken over someone else's land by simply moving in.
It took 35 years, a legal battle spanning a decades, thousands of dollars in unpaid rates and a lot of gumption, but using a little-known "squatters rights" law, a Brisbane lawyer and his brother-in-law were able to get a free holiday home on Moreton Island.
According to documents filed in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal it was 1978 when Lionel Cedric Julian Lees and his now former brother-in-law, Peter Franklin Moore inspected two abandoned and overgrown blocks, just metres from the water, in the tiny township of Bulwer.