Mt Warning: 5 years of lies and government ineptitude When Mt Warning was first closed temporarily due to fears walkers could catch covid at its blustery clean air summit my youngest daughter was starting high school. She's now in the middle of her HSC. My older daughter has nearly completed a university degree. This ridiculous "temporary" closure based on lies, ignorance and falsehoods marks it's 5 year anniversary today, with no end in sight and what appears to be a low likelihood of a common sense resolution. The temporary closure is extended to the end of 2025 as government officials and the Environment Minister Penny Sharpe move at a snail's pace to make a decision. NSW NPWS tossed out years of its own anthropological research that conclusively demonstrated there were no Aboriginal concerns about public access to the summit. The views of the recognised guardian of the mountain, Millie Boyd, tossed under the bus by NPWS for a false cultural tale that was cal...
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.