Tear down this wall - Mt Warning

My piece on Quadrant online. Thanks to Adrian Hoffman, Alan Keen and Sturt Davies Boyd. for their clear message about the stupid wall at Mt Warning.

Quadrant article...

Another Wall in Need of Felling

Following a protest climb to the summit of Mt Warning on Australia Day 2024 by members of Save our Summits Australia, Reopen Mt Warning Facebook group and local Ngarakwal custodian Sturt Davies Boyd, the libertarian John Ruddick MLC suggested a parliamentary petition with a view of generating enough signatures to trigger a debate on the access issue in the NSW Legislative Council. Labor’s upper house leader and environment minister, Penny Sharpe, agreed to a debate if 10,000 signatures of NSW residents supporting reopening were to be achieved by May 2, 2024.

Over the course of the next three months through a combination of promoting the petition on social media, countless kilometres devoted to dropping off about 30,000 flyers, community meetings, media interviews and a summit climb with locals on April 13, the required number was reached. Despite the misplaced agenda of some online bushwalking and climbing groups which declined the opportunity to join us in restoring non-racial, all-comers access to this wonderful summit we ended up with nearly 11,000 signatures. The promised debate, such as it was, came on May 9, 2024.

Rest at Quadrant via link above.

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