Historian of some renowned Keith Windschuttle has a devasting column on the Quadrant Website from the November edition of the Quadrant magazine exploring the reasons behind the closure of the Ayers Rock climb. It's behind a paywall, but one well worth the entry fee. Here's a taster.... Subscription available HERE
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.