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Mt Warning closure - 4 years of lies and misinformation

 Mt Warning closure - 4 years of lies and misinformation March 30 (Easter Saturday) marks the 4-year anniversary of the "temporary" closure of the Mt Warning summit track. Some thoughts and rambled musings below.  I spoke with Ben Fordham about the anniversary on the Ben Fordham Breakfast show on 2GB. Ben's response a classic:  "If you want to climb, just climb it!" Link to that interview HERE . 4 year anniversary of bureaucratic madness We know the exact date of the closure thanks to bushwalker: Tertia Starr Maynard, who posted a photo of a note left on her windscreen by NPWS rangers to the reopen Facebook page . It was dated and read “NPWS advises Wollumbin National Park is closing from today due to covid19. Gate is not locked but please close behind you as you exit. Thanks NPWS.” Photo by T Maynard - the last walkers out.  In the 4 years since, after other parks were reopened, Mt Warning remained closed and the reason for the temporary closure morphed to in...

Locked out of the sunburnt country

1957 - members of the Petticoat Safari climb Ayers Rock - more enlightened times! Below is a longer version of an essay I wrote that appears in the March 2024 issue of Quadrant Magazine . If you are interested in helping save what was once one of the best family bushwalks in eastern Australia, sign the Reopen Mt Warning Parliamentary petition via the following LINK .  Locked out of the sunburnt country Marc Hendrickx  I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror – The wide brown land for me! -- Dorothea Mackellar Australia’s cultural identity has forever been closely connected with the Australian Landscape. The natural world around us has helped forge our unique Australian spirit from which emerges our sense of humour, creed of mateship, altruism, ingenuity, self-reliance, courage, and resilience in the face of hardship. Despite the fact...