Right to Climb

Bolt Report Interview 31 October 2022 Audio of interview with Andrew Bolt, on the Bolt Report available from Soundcloud. Click the link below. Sound Cloud Link

Hon Mark Latham has asked some questions of spineless Liberal Ministers in NSW Parliament - Homework due on 15 November 2022 9670 - Environment and Heritage - ABORIGINAL PLACEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN (nsw.gov.au)   9670 - Environment and Heritage - ABORIGINAL PLACEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN Latham, Mark to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Regional Youth, and Minister for Tourism representing the Minister for Environment and Heritage (1)   Will the Aboriginal Place Management Plan (APMP) for Mount Warning effectively prevent the public from accessing that region? (a)   If not, can the Minister please provide the details of the APMP, specifically those details that impact on the public’s rights to enter the subject area? (2)   Which Aboriginal group will be the manager of this APMP? (a)   How was this group identified as the most appropriate to be involved in the APMP? (b)   Was this contested by any other Aboriginal gr...

 This article from Quadrant....  The Ominous Warning of Mount Warning https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/10/the-grim-warning-of-mount-warning/ Mt Warning: Ambit claims deserve to be ignored. Sunrise view from the top ambit claim: An extravagant initial demand made in expectation of an eventual counter-offer and compromise. Since the early 2000s NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) have been working to shut down the stunning bushwalk to the summit of the best preserved eroded shield volcano in the southern hemisphere known as Mount Warning or in the local Aboriginal dialect the Scrub Turkey - Wulambiny Momoli. The walk attracts well over 100000 visitors annually and properly managed could sustain many more. The real reasons behind the closure are more likely due to NPWS laziness than falsehoods about safety, environment or contested demands of so called Aboriginal custodians. With the rise of authoritarianism brought about by Governments shambolic management of ...

Three sad long years since the evils of myth, superstition and petty bureaucracy took away one of the world's most joyful experiences of the natural world.  The poison behind the climb closure is spreading like a virus with Victoria now unable to shake off an extreme infection of baleful ignorance and bureaucratic red tape with many world class rock climbing routes now banned in the Grampians and more madness to come in NSW as Mount Warning faces closure not just of the summit walk but of the entire National Park. VALE THE CLIMB! WE WILL RETURN 

My article in the Spectator. https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/mount-warning-banned-which-park-will-be-next/ Mount Warning banned! Which park will be next? Sunrise view from the top In June this year the NSW “Liberal” Government announced plans to hand over control of all our NSW National Parks to Aboriginal Groups that live nearby. Today with the release to the Wollumbin Aboriginal Place Management Plan (Mount Warning National Park) by NSW “Liberal” Government Minister for Environment and Heritage, the Hon James Griffin MP, and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Tourism, the Hon Benjamin Franklin MP we see how future access to our collective natural heritage will be managed. In short it means ignoring dissenting Aboriginal voices, closure of the whole park, banning all public access under the threat of $550000 fines, removing the summit lookouts, helipads and presumably the important geodetic survey markers – all trace of Western culture. The plan even allows for copyrighting ...

 Article in today's Courier Mail - appropriate headline.

 Mt Warning: Why ban awe and wonder? A view from the summit Open letter to the NSW Environment Minister Hon James Griffin MP Dear Hon James Griffin MP – NSW Minister for Environment,  RE CONTINUED PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT WARNING – IN YOUR HANDS In 2014 NSW Government declared Mt Warning National Park an Aboriginal Place for parts of the park above 600m in height (1). This includes the summit of Mount Warning which has been a highly popular tourist attraction since the summit track was constructed in 1909, attracting well over 100000 walkers annually.  James, you may have completed this awe-inspiring walk yourself at some point and would be well aware of the importance the summit has to the Australian and International community as a place of wonder and discovery of the natural world, and an important tourist destination in northern NSW; the first place in Australia to see the sunrise each day. Perhaps one day you would like to take your children to the s...