In Australia, we believe we live in a secular state where religion and government are separate. There is a clause in the Commonwealth Constitution that prevents the government from establishing a state religion or imposing religious observance. Section 116 states: The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth. Victoria has a bill of rights that protects twenty one fundamental human rights including: Right to freedom of movement (section 12) Right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief (section 14) Right to freedom of expression (section 15) Right to taking part in public life (section 18) Cultural rights (section 19) With this in mind, how did we end up with a religious fatwa being imposed on climbers at Ayers R...
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.