With the death knell rattling louding at Mt Warning in NSW, across the border Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service have shut the gate "temporarily" (ed - where have we heard that before?) at Mt Beerwah in the Glasshouse Mountains. Mt Beerwah is one of the most spectacular and challenging walks on the east coast and frequented by 10,000s of visitors each year. By Bidgee - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9812428 Last week some idiot(s), highly improbable it was a bushwalker or a Christian, clumsily carved the words 'Jesus Saves Just Ask Him" into the rock face with an angle grinder low down on the mountain. Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service today announced the Mountain would be closed for "cultural Healing". It's frustrating that QPWS have not attempted to speak with the climbing and bushwalking community who are outraged at this act of wanton vandalism before closing the mountain to visitors. There would have
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.