HE IS a symbol of the dispossessed and downtrodden.

After losing everything in the ANZ takeover of Landmark, Brett Fallon - a former grazier - in desperation doused himself in petrol and set himself alight in April 2013.

He spent seven months in a coma and managed to claw back a small parcel of land on which he set up the camp of Miowera Saleyards in August 2015.

He shares his home with travellers for a fee of five dollars a night. If they don't have the money they don't have to pay, Mr Fallon said.

On February 9 the Whitsunday Regional Council declared it had won a "legal battle” to have Mr Fallon's camp declared illegal. Mayor Andrew Willcox said the Planning and Environment Court in Brisbane ruled that Brandbid Pty Ltd's (Brett Fallon) use of the land at Miowera Saleyards for the purpose of providing temporary accommodation was unlawful.

"Council received numerous complaints from the public in regards to the Miowera Saleyards site conducting illegal camping and council requested the operator cease activities,” he said at the time.

But Mr Fallon said none of his neighbours had complained and he was actually related to one nearby property owner.

"The only complaints have come from the Bowen backpacking institutions,” he said, adding, "I could bludge on the government and get some sheila to be my carer or I can rely on my personality and offer some hospitality and at no cost to the taxpayer. I have seen this place moved from an eyesore on the highway to a well-mowed, well-maintained place.”

The court ordered that Mr Fallon's land was being used unlawfully and from February 15, Mr Fallon was ordered to stop permitting accommodation except for a legitimate visitor to the land in no more than one campervan, tent or caravan at any one time.

Mr Fallon remains defiant and is still welcoming travellers in campervans.

"The Whitsundays is a hospitality and tourism Mecca, it's the life blood of the region and will enjoy a good future. We are doing good things here,” he said.

"This council has not only concocted the fact that I am running some multi-million dollar tourist centre but they have gone to the ridiculous extent of running a 108-page furphy against me.”

Mr Fallon went on to cite hundreds of suburban Airbnb proponents in the Whitsundays who operate in a similar way to Miowera Saleyards.

"I am smelling rats in the system. This is a load-up.”

"Let's think about the Planning and Environment Court. It's the busiest court in Australia, corporate giants like Adani are in there and yet I squeezed in six phone sessions in six months including one on the the 23rd of December and a judgment was given three days before the judge was due to return from annual leave,” he said.

Mr Fallon said he had 53 pigs, three dogs and a menagerie of horses, chickens, ducks and geese and wasn't going to stop welcoming visitors to the Miowera Saleyards.