Mt Warning was closed over 6 years ago in March 2020 and remains closed as bureaucrats in NPWS continue on their "go slow" approach to seeing common sense. Economic damage due to the closure is running around $50M a year - that's now over $300M in economic damage thanks to our fat-bottomed bureaucracy and ministerial indifference. I asked the Minister for an update back in June and finally got this typical soft lettuce reply from NPWS last week. Keep climbing! Good afternoon I refer to your email to the Minister for Climate Change, Minister for Energy, Minister for the Environment and Minister for Heritage, the Hon Penny Sharpe MLC about the Wollumbin (Mount Warning) summit track in Wollumbin National Park. Your email was referred to the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) for reply. As you are likely aware, the closure of the Wollumbin summit and track has been extended until 30 June 2027 to enable the consideration of practically safe and culturally appropri...
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.