The Bent Spoon Award is presented annually by Australian Skeptics to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudo-scientific piffle. see https://www.skeptics.com.au/about/activities/bent-spoon/ T he NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) have been nominated for the 2022 Bent Spoon award. The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service are banning access to the summit of Mount Warning and the National Park in which it stands to satisfy the claims of the Bundjalung Nation an Indigenous Group with contested claims on the Mountain. Other Indigenous groups not promoted by NPWS have no problem with the public accessing the summit, and some groups actually encourage visitors to climb. The summit walk climbs the central plug of the Mount Warning Caldera Complex the largest eroded shield volcano in the southern hemisphere, providing unparalleled views of the caldera walls, the coastal plain and Tweed River valley. It has provided a source of inspiration to all wh
Our mountains belong to all of us. The Right to Climb them and bask in their views that inspire awe and wonder is as old as the human genome. This long-established cultural tradition is under threat by a small group of bureaucrats determined to impose their way on the rest of the world. It is right to Climb because we have the Right to climb. If you don’t exercise your rights you lose them. Don't let petty nanny state bureaucrats take them away.