My Article in the Spectator Australia... The starting point for policy on this needs to be the acknowledgment and commitment that Public lands will remain in Public hands. Paying the rent with our national parks ‘ The NSW Government recognises that land title is central to the development of a new model for Aboriginal joint management. Accordingly, it is anticipated the new model will provide for the potential handback of title to all NSW national parks – covering nearly 10 per cent of the state – over a 15 to 20-year period, subject to the land being leased back (long-term and for nominal rent) to the NSW Government for its continued use and management as a national park.’ On a cold wet Sunday in July this year, the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), responsible for managing 10 per cent of the land area in NSW (about 80,000 km2 or the size of Austria), quietly announced plans to (eventually) hand over title of all the National Parks in the state to Aboriginal Groups
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.