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SAVE OUR SUMMITS AUSTRALIA DAY PHOTO COMPETITION

 SAVE OUR SUMMITS AUSTRALIA DAY PHOTO COMPETITION This Australia Day you could win $1000 by showing your love for our Country by taking a photo featuring the Australian Flag from the top of an Australia Summit. See the SOS page for details...  https://www.saveoursummits.org/ Mt Warning Australia Day 2024 SAVE OUR SUMMITS AUSTRALIA DAY 2025 PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION Win $1000!   Winner receives $1000, SOS T-shirt and a signed copy of "A guide to climbing Mt Warning" Second place $500, SOS T-shirt and a signed copy of "A guide to climbing Mt Warning". 20 runners up: win SOS T-shirt and a signed copy of "A guide to climbing Mt Warning". How to enter: Take a photo of yourself, friends or family at the top of your favourite Australian mountain summit with the Australian Flag featured prominently taken on Australia Day (January 26, 2025) and share it to the SOS Facebook Page www.facebook.com/groups/saveoursummits or email to SaveOurSummits@gmail.com Entries acce...

Mt Warning 2024 - Best Australia Day ever

Climbing Mt Warning with a large group of like-minded individuals with the company and support of Sturt Boyd, son of Marlene Boyd , followed by a protest rally in Uki with about 200 people, to support reopening the 115 year old summit track to the public. Probably the best Australia Day experience in my life! Some pictures below to mark the occasion. North Coast Locals join Ngarakwal Elder to call for Mt Warning to be Reopened. January 26, 2024 About 200 locals from Uki, Murwillumbah and surrounds answered an invitation from Ngarakwal Elder Sturt Boyd to protest the ongoing closure of Mt Warning. The meeting was held at Gerard Parker Park at Uki on Australia Day. The famous walk to the summit has been closed by NPWS since March 2020 on the basis of claims made about the mountain by the secretive Wollumbin Consultative Group (WCG).  The event was supported by the Save Our Summits Association. SOS president Craig Evans opened the meeting speaking about the importance of access to the...

Australia Day - Reopen Mt Warning and other natural wonders

  Reopen Mt Warning Australia Day celebration Gerald Parker Park, Uki 1.30pm (NSW time) 26 January 2024.  See event page...  https://fb.me/e/gyPPeKaSM Happy Australia Day for the 26th of January! I'm a proud Australian. I'm proud of what this Country has achieved and represents, and of the Western values of Liberal Democracy that underpin that success. There are dark forces out there that want to see this country fail. Sadly some of these people are the very politicians and bureaucrats we put our faith in the run the country for everyone and not just for large corporations, or a few selfish entitled minorities who see themselves as perpetual victims rather than active citizens. We need to ask ourselves what we can give this great nation rather than what we can take from it. We are all Australians regardless of race, religion or how long we have been here. We need to reinvigorate a sense of national pride as we face an uncertain future in troubling times, or we face e...