An often rowdy rally of more than 100 residents from Banks Crescent, Cook Crescent and surrounding areas backed calls by Mayor John Molony, three city councillors and former mayor and minister Tony McGrady to take the fight to Queensland Parliament.

Mr McGrady weighed in with warnings about inactive "departmental zealots who will do anything to maintain the status quo (re bat laws)", and called on "people power" to "make a difference".

"This is the only thing that will work," he said.

"We are all in this together.

"This is not the council's fault, it's the (fault of the) legislation."

Rally organiser and Bank Crescent resident, Thelma Parker, received the support of The North West Star to urge other media from similarly affected regions to make the Ban the Bat campaign a statewide issue.

Mayor John Molony pledged that within days he would write a letter of demand to the Premier to override the current bat protection policies and empower councils "to take reasonable action to get rid of bats in problem areas within its own local government region, and to receive the support of the State Government while doing so".

The crowd applauded the resolutions and asked the council to collect tonnes of green waste fallen from trees stripped by roosting bats.

Some residents desperate to rid themselves of the foul bat problem said they had reluctantly cut down or heavily pruned trees which they had been encouraged to grow over the past 20-30 years to make this city "an ocean in the desert".

Other issues raised included:

There was one call to cull the bats with a shotgun shoot.

Mayor John Molony earned the applause of the crowd with his emotive summary: "We do want to help you. We do want to get rid of the bats and give you back your lifestyle.