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Heritage NSW rejects listing Mt Warning summit track and lookouts as State Heritage

Back in May with some assistance from the Uki Historical Society I submitted a nomination for Heritage listing the Mt Warning Summit Track and Lookouts. An excerpt of the nomination appears in italics below.  While I have come to expect very little from our Governments awash as they are with wokeness, I did hold a slim hope that in this case, luck would favour the brave and perhaps for once, a decision would be made on a rational basis. Sadly, it's the usual outcome:  Excerpt from the nomination form: Mount Warning Summit Track is of exceptional state heritage significance as a rare and outstanding example of early 20th-century bushwalking infrastructure and one of the oldest purpose-built public summit access trails in New South Wales, embodying over a century of shared cultural heritage, public recreation, environmental education, and Aboriginal significance across multiple groups. Constructed by volunteer labour in 1908–1909 during a formative period in New South Wales’ out...