Mt Warning to reopen - THANKYOU! Speech at SOS meeting Mt Warning Hotel 25 January 2026 It’s nearly 6 years since this beloved mountain walk was closed. The fight to have this magnificent mountain reopened has been a long one, fought on multiple fronts across the community. This closure should never have happened and I put the whole saga down to gross mismanagement by our National Parks and Wildlife Service. There should be mass sackings and a complete change in direction across the board. We wait and see if there will be any repercussions for those responsible. Don’t hold your breath! Australia Day 2026 - celebrating the announcement and the day (Photo Andrew Flanagan) SOS meeting Mt Warning Hotel Jan 25 2026 (Photo Steven Gibbs) Just before New Year I got a text from Jeremy Pierceof the Courier Mail . “Have you heard the news?” he asked. “No”, I responded. He texted “I hope you’re sitting down.” “Am now”, I wrote. “They’re going to reopen the...
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.