Post modernism destroying Australian Culture

Andrew Bolt reported on the recent more formal call to close Mt Tibrogargan by an activist Aboriginal group on his show last night and invited me on to comment.

The text below expands on some of the discussion.

The proposed closure of Tibrogargan and nearby Mt Beerwah, like Ayers Rock and Mount Warning and so many other special places now closed to the public based on racial grounds, has more to do with politics than culture. If it was about culture then what respect was given to the old men at Uluru, who grew up around the rock and were either indifferent to the Ayers Rock climb or like Tiger Tjalkalyirri actually encouraged visitors to climb. At Mt Warning the culture of the Aboriginal Group with the closest affinity to the Mountain, the Ngarakbal people who support public access, has been ignored for over 20 years by woke NPWS bureaucrats more interested in the views of groups with more distant connections to the mountain who want to ban access and make life easier for NPWS – who picture the cost savings and loss of risk of not having to maintain that track. It’s not about culture! It's about the power of minorities to control the rest of us and the incapacity of the bureaucracy to say NO to unreasonable demands.

Everyday Australians have been slow to realise the full extent of the political war being waged against them by so-called “progressive“ political players who now control much of our public sector and government. These empty-headed dullards sitting in air-conditioned offices in major cities have let post-modernist concepts of race, gender, identity, and a weird embrace of animist ideology take precedence over historical and scientific facts, and democratic concepts of freedom of speech and movement. Pragmatism in managing our National Parks has been replaced by impossible zero harm safety targets that close tracks and restrict movement to carparks and concrete trails, coupled with over-regulation, environmental alarmism, myth and superstition and it's being done under our very noses. When was the last time you saw a ranger in a National Park looking after the place?

The time is long overdue that the silent majority stand up for our common ideals or we risk being locked out of the wonderful country around us. And as our unique landscape has forged our character, in agreeing to this we risk losing the very thing that makes us Australian.

We may lose public access to Mt Beerwah which is the highest peak in the Glass house and Tibrogargan over the next few years if enough people don’t protest. In South Australia the highest peak in the Flinders Ranges St Mary’s peak remains under threat of a permanent ban. Access for Rock climbers in the Grampians is a complete shambles and we may see further areas there closed off to both climbers and hikers. And if this Voice gets up and to quote Anthony Albanese “it would be a brave government that ignored the advice of the voice” then who knows how much further it will go. If we take the recent WA legislation requiring Aboriginal consultants to have a say on the disturbance of private properties more than 1100 square meters in size, then perhaps we should be worried about accessing our own backyards.

So to those who can Climb Tibrogargan this week and all these other awe-inspiring places say a firm NO to this post-modernist woke madness and let your feet do your talking.

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