Senator David Leyonhjelm has labelled people complaining about the slogans on Wicked Campers vans as "authoritarians disguised as hippies or feminists".

The Byron Shire Council today passed a suite of motions in response to a community backlash against the vehicles.

They include a ban on vans with offensive slogans from council-owned caravan parks.

The neighbouring Ballina Shire Council is also considering a call to approach the State Government to take action on issue.

The councils were spurred into action after a Byron Bay man spray-painted over a slogan describing a sexual act.

A Facebook community called Boycott Wicked Campers now has more than 4,000 likes.

Wicked Campers slogans include: "A wife: an attachment you screw on the bed to get the housework done", "A blowjob a day keeps the breakup away" and "In every princess there is a little slut that just wants to try it once".

Wicked Campers slogans are 'funny', Senator says

But Senator Leyonhjelm said the company had done nothing wrong.

"They make some very funny statements, which obviously have sexual connotations," Senator Leyonhjelm said.

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"You need to be a particularly wowserish type of person to not find them funny."

Senator Leyonhjelm said people were free "not to like" the slogans, but they should simply "mind their own business".

"If you want to take offense that's your choice and you've got to remember it's a choice and other people make different choices," he said.

"Most of the statements I've read from the vans are able to be interpreted in a couple of ways and they require a degree of sophistication to know what they're getting at."

Senator Leyonhjelm said those complaining about the slogans were "authoritarian" because they were trying to enforce their views on the rest of the community.

"They're purporting to make up rules for the rest of us," he said.

"What they're trying to do is tell us what's good for us."

Ballina MP says slogans incite hatred

However, State Member for Ballina Tamara Smith said the slogans may incite hatred and violence towards women.

Ms Smith said community outrage warranted an all-of-government response.

"I've had a number of representations made to me by members of the community who are really outraged saying 'why hasn't anything been done'," she said.

"In terms of the Australian Standards Bureau, it has the power, but it doesn't seem to exert the power. I think the Federal Government could strengthen the legislation around the advertising standards."

Ms Smith, a Greens MP, said the issue was about vilification, not freedom of speech.

"This is inciting hatred towards women, it's also heteronormative," she said.

"These are things that are inciting violence, condoning violence and they could be seen as vilification."

She congratulated the Byron and Ballina shire councils for attempting to take a stand against Wicked Campers.

"There's a lot local government can do and there's also a role for the State and Federal governments," she said.