Mt Warning Protest Australia Day 2023 In the true spirit of reconciliation and looking towards a brighter future for all Australians, a small group of 7 walkers from Re-Open Mt Warning braved the darkness, heat, humidity and the leeches to be the first to see the sunrise on Australia Day this morning from the top of Mt Warning (wish I could have been among them). This small protest was intended to highlight continued management problems, delays and intransigence by NPWS in working with all stakeholders to re-open the park to all Australians. The group were there with the blessing of Ngarkwal custodian Eelemarni Elizabeth Davis Boyd. At her request they played a song from the summit about the mountains west of Mount Warning sung by her grandmother, Millie Boyd in the hope that this magical song would influence the Aboriginal men responsible for the closure, and help them support the women in sharing the mountain with everyone. A speech was read from the summit and its contents appe...
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.