there's a fair bit of talk that movies such as the fast and the furious promotes a lot of this behaviour, which probably has a fair amount of truth.
i like the idea of more legal racing areas. i haven't been to any b.y.o. type meets in perth, so i don't know a lot of cost details etc. about that. every wednesday night they usually have this at quit motoplex, one of the best drag strips in the southern hemisphere.
I know they have 1/8th mile drags down the straight at barbagallo raceway aswell, where you can also use the burnout pad.

from my place its easier to go offroad. there's plenty of gravel tracks within half an hours drive (even 10 mins if u look hard) where you can go cut sick, not hurt or annoy anyone, and do less damage to your own car. (bring an old car bonnet for smoke if you must have it...)
the worst part about this is that you can't see around corners...
yesterday i took the old boys patrol for a spin in the sand patch... now that was fun- sideways in a patrol... hope he don't read this

but yeah, off road, only go hard in open areas. be careful when your following someone aswell. my dad made that mistake. he was last in a group (motorbike, but the idea is the same) everyone else went round the corner, so he figured there was no one coming. flat out, and what do ya know, a car coming the other way, which everyone else nicely went around. I broken leg, and 9 months of work... still can't walk properly 20 odd years later.

be good to get a hundred acres or so in the middle of no where, put in a drag strip/burnout pad/drift circuit/whatever else, as well as a gravel pit, and charge people $10 per vehicle for a day. insurance is the biggest killer.